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Everyone here seems to be talking about how great jQuery was for DOM interaction and that's true. But the other thing that was life changing about it was how easy it was to make ajax requests!

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But the other thing that was life changing about it was how easy it was to make ajax requests!

What's the "modern" alternative to jQuery in that regard? I don't do much JS development, but if I needed to make an AJAX request today, my first instinct would probably still be to use jQuery.

Google the Fetch API.

Thanks!

Fetch API is fine, but Axios[0] gives you a lot more flexibility. The best thing I like is the request/response interceptor. You can do cool stuff like injecting tokens into outgoing requests, retry failed requests, centralized error handling. Because of adapters, it works both in browser environment as well as Node.js environment. Heck, you can even mock requests in your unit tests using a mock adapter[1] to avoid making actual HTTP requests. Sure there is a cost for adding dependency when you can just use native APIs, but in this case, I think it's worth it.

[0] https://axios-http.com/

[1] https://www.npmjs.com/package/axios-mock-adapter

fetch: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/fetch

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