HTTP delete

JavaScript, Browser · Oct 19, 2020

Makes a DELETE request to the passed URL.

  • Use the XMLHttpRequest web API to make a DELETE request to the given url.
  • Handle the onload event, by running the provided callback function.
  • Handle the onerror event, by running the provided err function.
  • Omit the third argument, err to log the request to the console's error stream by default.
const httpDelete = (url, callback, err = console.error) => {
  const request = new XMLHttpRequest();
  request.open('DELETE', url, true);
  request.onload = () => callback(request);
  request.onerror = () => err(request);
  request.send();
};
httpDelete('https://jsonplaceholder.typicode.com/posts/1', request => {
  console.log(request.responseText);
}); // Logs: {}

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