kamil-michalak / nanoajax

An ajax library you need a microscope to see

nanoajax

An ajax library you need a microscope to see.

Weighs in at 586 bytes gzipped and minified. It is very basic, but contains support for cross-domain requests back to somewhat older browsers.

API Changes

• Passing a string url instead of a params object has been removed in v0.4.0
• The params object was introduced in v0.2.1, and is the only way to use POST requests.

Install

You can use npm or bower:

npm install --save nanoajax

bower install --save nanoajax

Can be used via browserify:

var nanoajax = require('nanoajax')

Or you can use the global script:

<script src="/nanoajax.min.js"></script>

(You can build that script with: npm install -g uglify-js && ./make)

Use

GET

nanoajax.ajax({url:'/some-get-url'}, function (code, responseText) { ... })

POST

nanoajax.ajax({url: '/some-post-url', method: 'POST', body: 'post=content&args=yaknow'}, function (code, responseText, request) {
    # code is response code
    # responseText is response body as a string
    # request is the xmlhttprequest, which has `getResponseHeader(header)` function
})

Documentation

var xhrRequest = nanoajax.ajax(params, callback)

Simple and small ajax function. Takes a parameters object and a callback function.

Parameters:

• url: string, required
• headers: object of {header_name: header_value, ...}
• body: string (sets content type to 'application/x-www-form-urlencoded' if not set in headers)
• method: 'GET', 'POST', etc. Defaults to 'GET' or 'POST' based on body
• cors: If your using cross-origin, you will need this true for IE8-9 (to use the XDomainRequest object, also see Compatibility)

The following parameters are passed directly onto the request object:

IMPORTANT NOTE: The caller is responsible for compatibility checking.

• responseType: string, various compatability, see xhr docs for enum options
• withCredentials: boolean, IE10+, CORS only
• timeout: long, ms timeout, IE8+
• onprogress: callback, IE10+

Callback function prototype:

• statusCode: integer status or null
• response:
  • if responseType set and supported by browser, this is an object of some type (see docs)
  • otherwise if request completed, this is the string text of the response
  • if request is aborted, this is "Abort"
  • if request times out, this is "Timeout"
  • if request errors before completing (probably a CORS issue), this is "Error"
• request object

Returns the request object. So you can call .abort() or other methods

Compatibility

nanoajax works on android, iOS, IE8+, and all modern browsers, with some (known) caveats.

• Safari is conservative with cookies and will not allow cross-domain cookies to be set from domains that have never been visited by the user.
• IE8 and IE9 do not support cookies in cross-domain requests in this library. There are other solutions out there, but this library has chosen small over edge case compatibility.

License

MIT found in LICENSE file.