Aurelia - HTTP

In this chapter we will show you how to work with HTTP requests in Aurelia framework.

Step 1 - Create View

Let's create four buttons that will be used for sending requests to our API.

app.html

<template>
   <button click.delegate = "getData()">GET</button>
   <button click.delegate = "postData()">POST</button>
   <button click.delegate = "updateData()">PUT</button>
   <button click.delegate = "deleteData()">DEL</button>
</template>

Step 2 - Create View-model

For sending requests to server Aurelia recommends fetch client. We are creating functions for every requests we need (GET, POST, PUT and DELETE).

import 'fetch';
import {HttpClient, json} from 'aurelia-fetch-client';

let httpClient = new HttpClient();

export class App {

   getData() {
      httpClient.fetch('http://jsonplaceholder.typicode.com/posts/1')
      .then(response => response.json())
      .then(data => {
         console.log(data);
      });
   }

   myPostData = { 
      id: 101
   }
 
   postData(myPostData) {
      httpClient.fetch('http://jsonplaceholder.typicode.com/posts', {
         method: "POST",
         body: JSON.stringify(myPostData)
      })
  
      .then(response => response.json())
      .then(data => {
         console.log(data);
      });
   }

   myUpdateData = {
      id: 1
   }
 
   updateData(myUpdateData) {
      httpClient.fetch('http://jsonplaceholder.typicode.com/posts/1', {
         method: "PUT",
         body: JSON.stringify(myUpdateData)
      })
  
      .then(response => response.json())
      .then(data => {
         console.log(data);
      });
   }

   deleteData() {
      httpClient.fetch('http://jsonplaceholder.typicode.com/posts/1', {
         method: "DELETE"
      })
      .then(response => response.json())
      .then(data => {
         console.log(data);
      });
   }
  
}

We can run the app and click GET, POST, PUT and DEL buttons respectively. You can see in console that every request is succesfull, and the result is logged.