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Stefan Cutajar
7,747 PointsShould you still learn the Jquery part to make data requests (the final part of AJAX basics course) ?
Is this the way to do it these days or there will be certain occasions that jquery will still be in handy. I'm not trying to take shortcuts or anything like that but I'd rather learn something more useful in my free time than an obsolete technology
5 Answers
kevinardo
Treehouse Project ReviewerI think that focusing on learning the Fetch API is enough these days.
Roger Hwang
3,851 PointsAm also curious about this question. Why not just use Fetch API with the aforementioned benefits?
Emily Rodriguez
12,572 PointsPersonally I wouldn't bother with it if you're not already using jQuery in a project. There's nothing jQuery can do that you can't do in vanilla JS.
michaeldavies3
22,911 PointsAs in the video, and still now, IE doesn't support the Fetch API at all (incl IE 11)
https://caniuse.com/#feat=fetch
Also, XHR and jQuery aren't that hard to learn, and will help you to understand the mechanics of how async code works. The Dave McFarland course on this is great, and not so long. My two cents are that its worth learning all of them.
Johan Uribe
2,677 PointsSame question here.