Ruphaa's Notes

How to make a GET request to the passed URL?

js

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": "sample title", "body": "my text"}