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Understanding the basics of FETCH API

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GGiulio Bontadini
Last edited Jul 4, 2021
Created on Jul 3, 2021

This example demonstrates the JavaScript Fetch API for retrieving remote resources, using a CSV file of named colors hosted in a GitHub gist as the data source. It logs the initial promise object and its resolved Response to the browser console, then shows how to access the response body via the `response.text()` method. The code also highlights the limitation of reading the body stream only once and introduces the nested `.then()` pattern for handling asynchronous operations before mentioning the alternative async/await syntax. The page itself renders no visual output, relying entirely on the developer console for observation.

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