FAQ: Requests I - XHR POST Requests II

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This community-built FAQ covers the “XHR POST Requests II” exercise from the lesson “Requests I”.

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Web Development

Introduction To JavaScript

FAQs on the exercise XHR POST Requests II

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Why did we return the response in the if block of the onreadystatechange anonymous function? Where will this return go, since we aren’t calling the function directly?

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Why can’t we use the bracket notation as the property accessor to XHR?
Everywhere we are requested to use dot notation although in previous lessons about object we were told these are the exchangeable

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I don’t understand what this line of code is for. Why are we putting ID and the number 200? This is the second time I’ve done this section of the course and have watched various other videos outside of codecademy so I’m reaching out in the hope someone can help!

const data = JSON.stringify({id: '200'})

Thanks!