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Fetch

Meaning in web development, with examples

/fetʃ/verbCore term

In web development, fetch means: To request and receive data from a server or API, for example the latest messages or a list of products, often while the page is already open.

In Turkish: veri çekmek, getirmek, fetch etmek

How it is used

In JavaScript, fetch() is also the name of the built-in function for HTTP requests (the Fetch API). Developers fetch data on page load, on scroll or after a click, and talk about 'data fetching' strategies.

Example sentences

  1. We fetch the user's profile as soon as they log in.

  2. The component fetches new comments every thirty seconds.

Common collocations

  • fetch data
  • fetch from an API
  • data fetching
  • refetch
  • APIApplication Programming Interface: a defined way for one piece of software to ask another for data or actions, for example a web API that returns JSON.
  • promiseA JavaScript object that stands for a result that is not ready yet, such as data from a server, and that later succeeds or fails.
  • requestA message a client sends to a server asking for something, such as a web page, an image or data, or asking it to save a change.
  • asynchronousDescribes code that starts a task, such as loading data, and goes on running other code instead of waiting for that task to finish.

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