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jQuery 3.6.2 | Dec 2022

You can polyfill fetch() if that's a concern:

The impact of removing jQuery on our web performance | Aug 2022

Microsoft dropped support for IE in June 2022. https://caniuse.com/fetch shows that fetch() is now at 96.99% support for global users.

If you still need to support old IE you can use a library like https://github.com/github/fetch

You might not need jQuery (2014) | Jan 2021

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You can use a polyfill such as https://github.com/github/fetch.

Show HN: A free, lightweight static page to get stock quotes using the IEX API | Apr 2018

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Fortunately, there is a very good polyfill[0] for it.

[0]: https://github.com/github/fetch

PlainJS – Vanilla JavaScript Repository | Sep 2017

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I suppose. Or just use a polyfill for old browsers. It increases your code size a little, but at least the bloat is temporary.

https://github.com/github/fetch or https://www.npmjs.com/package/fetch-ie8

Ask HN: How do you get people to use your product when you suck at networking? | Oct 2016

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You can use this polyfill and it should work: https://github.com/github/fetch

JQuery++ | Aug 2016

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https://github.com/mzabriskie/axios

https://github.com/github/fetch

Among countless others. Please don't bring in all of jQuery if you're just going to use one function from it.

jQuery 3.0 Release Candidate | May 2016

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+1 for fetch. Use the good github fetch polyfill for old browsers https://github.com/github/fetch

Cash: An absurdly small jQuery alternative for modern browsers | Apr 2016

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Fetch is great and there's a tiny polyfill from GitHub to patch IE and Safari https://github.com/github/fetch

Khan Academy's React style guide | Oct 2015

It's probably a good time to start looking at using the Fetch API [1] for making AJAX requests instead of using jQuery or Backbone (or even XMLHttpRequest). Support seems to be growing quickly and Github's polyfill [2] can help cover the gaps.

[1] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Fetch_API [2] https://github.com/github/fetch

React.js Introduction for People Who Know Just Enough JQuery | Jul 2015

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You can polyfill it in those browsers. Just use polyfill.io, or if you prefer, manually feature-detect it and if necessary load Github's fetch polyfill, which is good: https://github.com/github/fetch

Sprint – A high-performance, DOM library for modern browsers | Apr 2015

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Maybe using a fetch polyfill is more future looking?

https://github.com/github/fetch

Show HN: Xr – A modern ES6 Promise-based XMLHttpRequest wrapper | Mar 2015

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 currently need to enable it — go to about:config, set dom.fetch.enabled to true, and restart the browser. To use Fetch in Chrome 41/Opera 28, you need to enable the "Experimental Web Platform Features" pref in chrome://flags.

What the Flux? | Jan 2015

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I've used github/fetch [1] which is a polyfill for the upcoming fetch standard [2]. If you ever want to go beyond this its one of state sources in marty.js [3]

[1] https://github.com/github/fetch [2] https://fetch.spec.whatwg.org/ [3] http://martyjs.org/guides/state-sources/http.html