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SHOW HN2015
How HN took it
0 positive, 4 neutral or asking, 0 mixed, 7 critical, out of 11 comments about the project. Thread score -0.43.
Execution: 0 for, 3 againstDesign: 0 for, 2 againstIdea: 0 for, 1 againstDocs: 0 for, 1 against
The thread, comment by comment
Each row is a top-level comment and its replies, in HN's order. Select a cell to open that comment on HN.
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What HN said
What people liked
Nice tiny dependency that makes AJAX requests nicer
From 1 comment
Yep, had a play around with fetch but it didn't seem ready and acted kind of weird. Can't remember exactly what was wrong as it was a while ago. I imagine once fetch is decent,…
antihero on HN
Looks awesome
From 1 comment
Looks awesome, though the name fetch does work better for GET requests than for POST/PUT/PATCH/DELETE.
VeejayRampay on HN
Objections
Rejects on any non-200 status, though 2xx codes like 201, 202 and 204 are success
From 2 comments
> * Rejects if not 200. There are other valid 20x return codes that indicate success, such as 202 Accepted and 204 No Content.
pimlottc on HNIsn't 201 the code for a successful resource creation as well?
VeejayRampay on HN
Giant options object API is hard to compose
From 1 comment
Really sad they choose "giant options object" for the api. Makes it pretty difficult to compose.
Touche on HN
Name fetch fits GET better than other methods
From 1 comment
Looks awesome, though the name fetch does work better for GET requests than for POST/PUT/PATCH/DELETE.
VeejayRampay on HN
Requests
Accept all 2xx status codes instead of only 200
From 1 comment
> * Rejects if not 200. There are other valid 20x return codes that indicate success, such as 202 Accepted and 204 No Content.
pimlottc on HN
Reject when the loader throws, such as on malformed JSON
From 1 comment
Pretty cool, but I have a nitpick: reject() should be called when the loader throws an exception (e.g. if the response is malformed JSON).
breuleux on HN
Questions
Should the library use fetch instead
From 1 comment
You should look at `fetch` which is the new specification for a promise based XHR wrapper. Polyfill: https://github.com/github/fetch To use Fetch in Firefox (38), you'll…
vjeux on HN
Does the XHR get garbage collected after .then
From 1 comment
What happens after .then? Does xhr get GC'd? Would the inner xhr be considered out of scope?
rayshan on HN
Alternatives named
fetch API with github polyfill
From 1 comment
You should look at `fetch` which is the new specification for a promise based XHR wrapper. Polyfill: https://github.com/github/fetch To use Fetch in Firefox (38), you'll…
vjeux on HN
axios
From 1 comment
Have you seen https://github.com/mzabriskie/axios?
pseudobry on HN