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JavaScript Node.js Basics Building a Command Line Application Requesting data with https

Posted by lord kenu
lord kenu
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Can I use fetch() in fetching the data from the API?

i tried using fetch() in fetching the data from the API and worked perfectly. is it advisable please?

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Rohald van Merode
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Rohald van Merode
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Rohald van Merode
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Rohald van Merode
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Hey lord kenu 👋

This workshop was recorded before the fetch API became stable in Node. When you're working in a Node v21.x environment you can indeed safely use the more modern fetch syntax instead of the https module shown in this video.