anthrax3 / jquerylessajax

Library to provide JQuery like syntax just for Ajax

JQueryLessAjax

JQuery like syntax for AJAX without the whole of JQuery, for modern browsers.

Motivation

Rough and ready JQuery based syntax for AJAX at a small size.

Inspired by Rob Hawkes' tweet:

Necessary JS is fine. 
Whacking in the whole of jQuery for AJAX...
not so fine ;)

Caution

Rough and ready, quickly written, won't work in all cases - doesn't provide full functionality etc..

Usage

Download the minified library and include it in your html.

<script src="js/jqueryless-ajax.min.js"></script>

Get request with parameters returning JSON:

$.get(
    '/url_to_post_to?id=5',
    {data1: 34, name: "hello" },
    function callback(json){
        ... // do something with json
    },
    'json'
);

POST request with parameters an no return callback:

$.post(
    '/url_to_post_to?id=5',
    {data1: 34, name: "hello" }
);

POST request with parameters returning an ArrayBuffer:

$.post(
    '/url_to_post_to?id=5',
    {data1: 34, name: "hello" },
    function callback(arraybuffer){
        ... // do something with arraybuffer
    },
    'arraybuffer'
);

POST request returning HTML or text:

$.post(
    '/url_to_post_to',
    function callback(data){
        ... // do something with data
    },
    'text'
);

POST request returning JSON:

$.post(
    '/url_to_post_to',
    function callback(json){
        ... // do something with json
    },
    'json'
);

POST request returning a Uint8Array:

$.post(
    '/url_to_post_to',
    function callback(arraybuffer){
        var uint8Array = new Uint8Array(arraybuffer);
        ... // do something with uint8Array
    },
    'arraybuffer'
);

POST request returning a blob:

$.post(
    '/url_to_post_to',
    function callback(blob){
        ... // do something with blob
    },
    'blob'
);

POST request returning xml:

$.post(
    '/url_to_post_to',
    function callback(xml){
        ... // do something with xml
    },
    'document'
);