DollarJS Ajax Plugin

Extend DollarJS with async request capability

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• Full (dollar.ajax.js)
• Minified (dollar.ajax.min.js)

Add both of the following scripts to your webpage (in this order)

<script src="dollar.js"></script>
<script src="dollar.ajax.js"></script>

Install & Require

Available as a standalone NPM package

$ npm install dollar-js-ajax --save

var $ajax = require('dollar-js-ajax');

$.get(url [, data] [, success] [, dataType])

$.get('http://example.com', { one: 1, two: 2 }, function(r){ console.log(r); }, 'json');

A convenience alias for

$.ajax({
    method: 'get',
    url: url,
    data: data,
    success: success,
    dataType: dataType,
});

$.post(url [, data] [, success] [, dataType])

$.post('http://example.com', { one: 1, two: 2 }, function(r){ console.log(r); }, 'text');

A convenience alias for

$.ajax({
    method: 'post',
    url: url,
    data: data,
    success: success,
    dataType: dataType,
});

$.getJSON(url [, data] [, success])

$.getJSON('http://example.com', { one: 1, two: 2 }, function(r){ console.log(r); });

A convenience alias for

$.ajax({
    method: 'get',
    url: url,
    data: data,
    success: success,
    dataType: 'json',
});

$.getScript(url [, success] [, error])

$.getScript('http://example.com/script.js', function () {
    // after successful load
}, function () {
    // oops, it failed
});

$.ajax(settings)

$.ajax({
    method: 'get',
    headers: { 'X-Custom-Stuff': 'here' },
    url: 'http://example.com',
    data: { one: 1, two: 2 },
    cache: false,
    success: function (data, response) {
        // handle a successful response
    },
    error: function (err) {
        // handle a failure response
    },
    complete: function (status, response) {
        // handle the response (whether it was successful or not)
    },
    dataType: 'json',
});

Request Settings

method {String}

An HTTP request method such as 'get', 'post', 'put', 'delete'. Default is 'get'.

headers {Object}

Additional key/value pairs to send on the header of the request.

url {String}

The url to be requested.

data {Object}

Data to be sent to the server. This will be serialized into the query string (search params) on the url of a GET request or sent in the body of a POST request.

cache {Boolean}

A value indicating if the request should be cached. Disabling caching is done by appending _={timestamp} to the url. Default is true.

Response settings

success {Function}

A callback to be executed after a successful response is received. Callback is passed the parsed response data and the original response object.

error {Function}

A callback to be executed after a request fails for any reason. Callback is passed an error object indicating the reason for the failure.

complete {Function}

A callback to be executed after a request finishes regardless of the outcome. Callback is passed an indication of the status of the response and the original response object.

dataType {String}

The type of data that you're expecting back from the server. Can be 'text', 'html', 'xml', 'json'. If none is specified the Content-Type response header will be used to determine how to parse the response data. Default is to process as plain text.