Sending and Receiving JSON Data via POST

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Fetch request promises initially return Response objects. These will provide response header information, but they don’t directly include the response body, which may not have even loaded yet. Methods on the Response object such as .json() can be used to wait for the response body to load, then parse it.

const requestData = {
  method : 'getUsers'
};

const usersPromise = fetch('/api', {
  method : 'POST',
  body : JSON.stringify(requestData)
}).then(response => {
  if (!response.ok) {
    throw new Error("Got non-2XX response from API server.");
  }
  return response.json();
}).then(responseData => {
  return responseData.users;
});

usersPromise.then(users => {
  console.log("Known users: ", users);
}, error => {
  console.error("Failed to fetch users due to error: ", error);
});

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