Strategies for Handling Asynchronous Information

Learn how to fetch data from HTTP using observables and working with the built-in Angular HTTP client.

Before we dive deeper into describing the Angular built-in HTTP client and how to use it to communicate with servers, let’s talk about native HTTP implementations first. Currently, if we want to communicate with a server over HTTP using JavaScript, we can use the fetch API. It contains all the necessary methods to connect with a server and start exchanging data. We can see an example of how to fetch data in the following code:

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