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ajax-client
Advanced tools
ajax-client
A simple ajax client with jQuery like ajax API for js.
jQuery is great, but do you use jQuery(80KB over) only for ajax?
install
- use package with npm
npm install ajax-client
- use from CDN
<script src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/ajax-client@1.2.0/lib/ajax-client.js"></script>
usage
Post
- Post JSON string to server,Receive JSON string from server.
const client = new AjaxClient();
//Data object to send
const data = {
message: "hello"
}
client.ajax({
type: 'post',
url: 'http://localhost:9999/api',
headers: {
'X-Original-Header1': 'header-value-1',//Additional Headers
'X-Original-Header2': 'header-value-2',
},
contentType: 'application/json',//content-type of sending data
data: JSON.stringify(data),//text data
dataType: 'json',//data type to parse when receiving response from server
timeoutMillis: 5000,//timeout milli-seconds
success: (response, xhr) => {
},
error: (e, xhr) => {
},
timeout: (e, xhr) => {
}
});
Get
const client = new AjaxClient();
client.ajax({
type: 'get',
url: 'http://localhost:9999/something.html',
contentType: 'application/json',//content-type of sending data
dataType: 'text',//data type to parse when receiving response from server
timeoutMillis: 5000,//timeout milli-seconds
success: (response, xhr) => {
},
error: (e, xhr) => {
},
timeout: (e, xhr) => {
}
});
Example (using ajax-client)
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
<meta charset="UTF-8">
<title>ajax-client example</title>
</head>
<body>
<script src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/riversun/ajax-client/master/dist/ajaxclient.js"></script>
<script>
const ajax = new AjaxClient();
//Data object to send
const data = {
message: "hello"
}
//Do async post request
ajax.postAsync({
url: 'http://localhost:9999/api',//Endpoint
headers: {
'X-Original-Header1': 'header-value-1',//Additional Headers
'X-Original-Header2': 'header-value-2',
},
contentType: 'application/json; charset = UTF-8',//content-type of sending data
data: JSON.stringify(data),//text data
dataType: 'json',//data type to parse when receiving response from server
timeoutMillis: 5000,//timeout milli-seconds
success: response => {
console.log(response);
},
error: e => {
console.error('Error occurred');
},
timeout: e => {
console.error('Timeout occurred.');
}
});
</script>
</body>
</html>
Run test server (node.js)
- run test-server to test example above
TestServer.js
npm run test-server
/**
* Test Server for ajax-client
*
* npm run test-server
*
* @type {createApplication}
*/
const express = require('express');
const app = express();
const bodyParser = require('body-parser');
app.use(bodyParser.json());
//Specify port
var port = process.env.PORT || 9999;
//Allow CORS
app.use(function (req, res, next) {
res.header("Access-Control-Allow-Origin", "*");
res.header("Access-Control-Allow-Headers", "Origin,Content-Type,Accept,X-Original-Header1,X-Original-Header2");
next();
});
//Handle 'post' as 'http://localhost:9999/api'
app.post('/api', bodyParser.json(), function (req, res, next) {
res.status(200);
const data = req.body;
if (data) {
let message = "Hi,there! You say " + data.message;
res.json({
output: message
});
} else {
let message = 'error:message not found.';
res.json({
error: message
});
}
});
app.listen(port);
console.log('Server started on port:' + port);
Classical approach(using jQuery)
index_jquery.html
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
<meta charset="UTF-8">
<title>jQuery ajax example</title>
</head>
<body>
<script
src="https://code.jquery.com/jquery-3.3.1.min.js"
integrity="sha256-FgpCb/KJQlLNfOu91ta32o/NMZxltwRo8QtmkMRdAu8="
crossorigin="anonymous"></script>
<script>
//Data object to send
const data = {
message: "hello"
}
$.ajax({
type: "post",
url: 'http://localhost:9999/api',//Endpoint
headers: {
'X-Original-Header1': 'header-value-1',//Additional Headers
'X-Original-Header2': 'header-value-2',
},
contentType: 'application/json; charset = UTF-8',//content-type of sending data
data: JSON.stringify(data),
dataType: "json",
success: response => {
console.log(response);
},
error: e => {
console.error('Error occurred');
}
});
</script>
</body>
</html>
FAQs
A simple ajax client with 'jquery-like' API
The npm package ajax-client receives a total of 24 weekly downloads. As such, ajax-client popularity was classified as not popular.
We found that ajax-client demonstrated a not healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released a year ago. It has 1 open source maintainer collaborating on the project.
Package last updated on 20 May 2020
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