Stimulus and Ajax

Learn to use Stilumus and Ajax in this lesson.

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Usually, when we talk about communication between the client and server, we are referring to the client calling the server to receive data. Let’s look at how we would make those calls in our Stimulus code.

Making Ajax calls

The simplest mechanism for making Ajax calls in modern JavaScript is with the fetch function and the async/await syntax for handling asynchronous behavior.

The Rails UJS library provides an ajax method, but the ...