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So now we had a look at XMLHttpRequest and the fetch API, both allow us to send requests, the fetch

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APIs more modern and not supported in older browsers.

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A big plus is that it's generally easy to use and uses promises out of the box, a minus is that error

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handling can be clunky.

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Of course not the end of the world but not the most beautiful approach.

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Now arguably, that's also not that beautiful but if you hide it behind some custom function, it might

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be fine and might be a bit more straightforward to understand,

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in the end however you can also hide this behind a custom function and you're probably fine again.

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It's up to you which approach you use,

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both are fine to be used and actually another alternative which you have is that you use a third-party

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library, something we haven't really touched on yet

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which might wrap this, so the XMLHttpRequest or this fetch API approach and gives you a nicer API

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to work with, where you don't have to care about how it's implemented internally

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and that's actually something we'll have a look at in the third-party libraries module which comes right

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after this one.

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But it's important to understand how to implement this natively and often, the fetch API is great because

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it's easy to use, quick to get started and uses promises out of the box but also be aware that 

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XMLHttpRequest has better support for older browsers out of the box and in some places, regarding error

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handling specifically, might be more straightforward.