Fetch API

Category: Network / Connectivity
Type: New or changed feature
Status: Enabled by default (Chrome 42)
Intent stage: None

Summary

Fetch API is a new API for loading resources in web applications. It's intended to supersede XMLHttpRequest. Fetch API is already available in ServiceWorker scope. This entry is for announcing its availability in window scope.

Standards & signals

Specification: https://fetch.spec.whatwg.org/#fetch-api
Firefox: Shipped/Shipping
Safari: Shipped/Shipping
Web developers: Positive
Tracking bug: http://crbug.com/436770

Docs: http://updates.html5rocks.com/2015/03/introduction-to-fetch https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Fetch_API

Samples: https://github.com/GoogleChrome/samples/tree/gh-pages/fetch-api

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