GET
request to the passed URL.XMLHttpRequest
web API to make a GET
request to the given url
.onload
event, by calling the given callback
the responseText
.onerror
event, by running the provided err
function.err
, to log errors to the console's error
stream by default.const httpGet = (url, callback, err = console.error) => {
const request = new XMLHttpRequest();
request.open('GET', url, true);
request.onload = () => callback(request.responseText);
request.onerror = () => err(request);
request.send();
};
httpGet( 'https://jsonplaceholder.typicode.com/posts/1', console.log ); /* Logs: { "userId": 1, "id": 1, "title": "sunt aut facere repellat provident occaecati excepturi optio reprehenderit", "body": "quia et suscipit\nsuscipit recusandae consequuntur expedita et cum\nreprehenderit molestiae ut ut quas totam\nnostrum rerum est autem sunt rem eveniet architecto" } */
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