Making AJAX requests is an essential part of web development, especially when working with dynamic content. AJAX allows you to retrieve data from a server without having to refresh the entire web page. In JavaScript, you can make AJAX requests using the XMLHttpRequest object.

To make an AJAX GET request, you need to create an instance of the XMLHttpRequest object. Then, you use the open method to specify the type of request (GET, POST, etc.) and the URL of the server you want to send the request to.

Next, you set the onreadystatechange event handler to listen for changes in the request's state. When the readyState is 4 and the status is 200, it means that the request has been successful and the response is ready to be processed.

Inside the onreadystatechange event handler, you can handle the response from the server. Typically, you would parse the response as JSON using JSON.parse and then perform any necessary operations on the data.

Here's an example of making an AJAX GET request:

1// Making an AJAX GET request
2
3const xhr = new XMLHttpRequest();
4
5// Replace 'url' with the actual URL endpoint you want to make a request to
6xhr.open('GET', 'url', true);
7
8xhr.onreadystatechange = function() {
9  if (xhr.readyState === 4 && xhr.status === 200) {
10    // Handle the response here
11    const response = JSON.parse(xhr.responseText);
12    console.log(response);
13  }
14};
15
16xhr.send();

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// Making an AJAX GET request

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const xhr = new XMLHttpRequest();

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// Replace 'url' with the actual URL endpoint you want to make a request to

xhr.open('GET', 'url', true);

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xhr.onreadystatechange = function() {

  if (xhr.readyState === 4 && xhr.status === 200) {

    // Handle the response here

    const response = JSON.parse(xhr.responseText);

    console.log(response);

  }

};

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xhr.send();