Making AJAX Requests
Let's see how an AJAX constructor behaves differently from the observables and throws an error if the URL doesn't exist.
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ajax constructor
ajax is another helper constructor; this one performs an AJAX request.
It returns an observable of a single value: whatever the AJAX request returns. Here’s a simple example.
Note: The
ajaxconstructor is imported from a different location than the other constructors.
Running this code does not log data about the AJAX request to the Console. Instead, a big fat error message appears in the Console informing us that the URL, I told you to request doesn’t exist.
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