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Honestly, while axios is nice to have on the server side, the websocket API in the browser is very simple to use. Which IMO is a consistent theme with modern br

• girvo 7y ago
  Agreed: on our current front end project at work I’m having a lot of fun teaching the team the amazing browser APIs that subsume the need for a lot of the third party dependencies we used to reach for
  • orange8 7y ago
    How do you deal with IE 11?
    • IggleSniggle 7y ago
      Many of us do not need to deal with IE. I haven't even needed to deal with mobile in years. Depends on requirements and use case.
      • orange8 7y ago
        Agreed. But the reason I asked because I am assuming they are making changes to a long-standing project that previously relied on third-party libraries (for browser compat?). I'm interested in that specific situation, not all projects in general.
    • girvo 7y ago
      In this project, simple: we don't have to. Despite being a decade old application, it was entirely AJAX-driven and front-end focused even back in 2010, and IE support was dropped entirely a few years ago by the business. Works in Edge just fine, as to be expected
      • orange8 7y ago
        Makes sense. I think the two options are just dropping IE support entirely or using (usually third-party) polyfills.