Displaying the top JavaScript questions of the month from Stack Overflows API

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We can make an AJAX request to Stack Exchange’s API to retrieve a list of the top JavaScript questions for the month, then present them as a list of links. If the request fails or the returns an API error, our promise error handling displays the error instead.

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const url =
    'http://api.stackexchange.com/2.2/questions?site=stackoverflow' +
    '&tagged=javascript&sort=month&filter=unsafe&key=gik4BOCMC7J9doavgYteRw((';

fetch(url).then(response => response.json()).then(data => {
  if (data.error_message) {
    throw new Error(data.error_message);
  }

  const list = document.createElement('ol');
  document.body.appendChild(list);

  for (const {title, link} of data.items) {
    const entry = document.createElement('li');
    const hyperlink = document.createElement('a');
    entry.appendChild(hyperlink);
    list.appendChild(entry);

    hyperlink.textContent = title;
    hyperlink.href = link;
  }
}).then(null, error => {
  const message = document.createElement('pre');
  document.body.appendChild(message);
  message.style.color = 'red';

  message.textContent = String(error);
});

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