Lesson 6 · zap JavaScript for Real

Fetch & JSON

Call an HTTP API correctly, including the failure paths.

Before you start

fetch only rejects on network failure — a 500 response is a *successful* fetch with ok: false. Forgetting that is the single most common bug in first-time API code, and it's why every serious client wraps fetch.

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