You're not wrong, and the extra step is a bit misunderstood, although important if you want to stream large binary files (I used it in this PWA demo to show a %βblink and you'll miss it).
I have a few unrelated thoughts:
await makes the flow much nicer than Chris' examples
I'm also surprised neither link uses onload, instead using the more confusing onreadystatechange (and this is actually a vote for XHRs).
the lack of support for responseType = 'json' in IE11 actually makes XHRs more confusing, since you just can't safely use that parameter and you have to add a JSON.parse call too
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You're not wrong, and the extra step is a bit misunderstood, although important if you want to stream large binary files (I used it in this PWA demo to show a %βblink and you'll miss it).
I have a few unrelated thoughts:
awaitmakes the flow much nicer than Chris' examplesonload, instead using the more confusingonreadystatechange(and this is actually a vote for XHRs).responseType = 'json'in IE11 actually makes XHRs more confusing, since you just can't safely use that parameter and you have to add aJSON.parsecall too