XHR Object Methods & Working with Text

This video tutorial explains how to use the XHR object to fetch data from a text file and display it on a webpage asynchronously. It covers setting up a basic HTML structure, creating and configuring an XHR object, handling responses, checking HTTP status codes, understanding ready state values, and error handling. The tutorial concludes with displaying the fetched data in the browser and a brief mention of JSON as a more common data format.

What is the role of the 'responseText' property in an XHR response?

What is the purpose of the 'send' method in the XHR object?

How can you display a loading spinner while fetching data using XHR?

Describe how to update the inner HTML of a webpage with data fetched from an XHR request.