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Introduction to the Fetch API {: .page-title }

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Fetch is a new API that makes ‘Fetch’ing remote resources much easier. Like XMLHttpRequest, Fetch can be used for making requests same origin or cross domain requests. Fetch uses a cleaner, more powerful API that separates the request from the response and uses a promise to return the response.