Asynchronous API request

This is an example of a simple GET API call wrapped in a promise to take advantage of its asynchronous functionality.

var get = function(path) {
  return new Promise(function(resolve, reject) {
    let request = new XMLHttpRequest();
    request.open('GET', path);
    request.onload = resolve;
    request.onerror = reject;
    request.send();
  });
};

More robust error handling can be done using the following onload and onerror functions.

request.onload = function() {
  if (this.status >= 200 && this.status < 300) {
    if(request.response) {
      // Assuming a successful call returns JSON
      resolve(JSON.parse(request.response));
    } else {
      resolve();
  } else {
    reject({
      'status': this.status,
      'message': request.statusText
    });
  }
};

request.onerror = function() {
  reject({
    'status': this.status,
    'message': request.statusText
  });
};

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