httpDelete javascript Code Snippet in 2025

Makes a DELETE request to the passed URL.

• Use the XMLHttpRequest web API to make a DELETE request to the given url.
• Handle the onload event, by running the provided callback function.
• Handle the onerror event, by running the provided err function.
• Omit the third argument, err to log the request to the console's error stream by default.

const httpDelete = (url, callback, err = console.error) => {
  const request = new XMLHttpRequest();
  request.open('DELETE', url, true);
  request.onload = () => callback(request);
  request.onerror = () => err(request);
  request.send();
};

httpDelete('https://jsonplaceholder.typicode.com/posts/1', request => {
  console.log(request.responseText);
}); // Logs: {}