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JavaScript AJAX Basics Programming AJAX Processing JSON Data

Posted by giorgio gristina
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giorgio gristina
Front End Web Development Techdegree Graduate 13,839 Points

Uncaught TypeError: Assignment to constant variable. at XMLHttpRequest.xhr.onreadystatechange (widget.js:10)

hi everyone, i did exactly the same as the video said to do but still is giving me an error and doesn't display the widget.

snapshot: https://w.trhou.se/ykeyt87gte

thanks in advance for your help

1 Answer

Blake Larson
Blake Larson
13,014 Points
Blake Larson
Blake Larson
13,014 Points

You are adding on HTML tags to statusHTML but its a constant variable.

 const statusHTML = '<ul class="bulletted">';

to

 let statusHTML = '<ul class="bulletted">';