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enahs-sf on Jan 20, 2022 | parent | context | favorite | on: Make Front End Shit Again (2018)

Fetch is great. I never understood the need for installing axios when fetch works fine. I remember the good old days of XMLHttpRequest.

nkzd on Jan 20, 2022 | [–]

Axios has better errror handling.

jsmith99 on Jan 20, 2022 | [–]

Fetch doesn't have progress bars yet.

easrng on Jan 20, 2022 | [–]

False, you can use response.body which is a ReadableStream. See https://fetch-progress-demo.glitch.me/ for a simple example.

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