I see that the AJAX Basics course "will be retired on June 19, 2019.". What's the reason/will it be replaced?

Hi! We are re-working AJAX Basics currently to remove the sections about jQuery. We will be republishing the course in a shorter format that only covers the basics of the XMLHttpRequest object: this is the fundamental technology underlying AJAX. So, the short answer is, if you're in the middle of the course, go ahead and finish it. If you haven't yet started it, look for the short version coming out in June. Either way, you'll get the same basic material about AJAX.

Another new addition to your AJAX toolbox is the Fetch API which is described really well in our Working with the Fetch API by the awesome Guil Hernandez.

Hi Steven Parker,

We're retiring content related to making AJAX requests with jQuery and teaching the friendlier Fetch API. The follow-on course Asynchronous Programming with JavaScript teaches students how to convert XHR to promised-based requests with Fetch, using traditional promises and async / await. And the Working with the Fetch API workshop further builds on Fetch.

While we still may link to documentation on making AJAX requests with jQuery, we feel that sticking with the more elegant and modern Fetch API -- vs teaching three different data-fetching techniques -- better servers students taking the FSJS & FEWD curriculums.

Hope this helps! :)

You can always see what's planned for release on the content roadmap page, but I don't see anything about AJAX there now. We can try tagging Dave McFarland and perhaps he will post an answer here himself. And you might also try writing to the Support staff — if you do, add a comment here to update us with what you find out!

And the JavaScript topic area might be the best place for an AJAX question, in case you want to move it.

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