Vanilla JavaScript async multiple xhr.open()

Question

I would like know how to handle multiple xhr requests with vanilla JS. I want to open multiple html templates and load the page when all of them are ready. when I use few xhr.open() requests it will only return 1 template:

var xhr = new XMLHttpRequest();
xhr.onload = function() {
    if(xhr.status === 200){
        storage.append(xhr.responseText);
    }
}
function getAsync(url) {
    xhr.open('get', url);
    xhr.send();
}
getAsync('localhost:3000/template1.html');
getAsync('localhost:3000/template2.html');

I understand that .open() only works 1 at a time . So is it possible to load all teamplates asynchronously or should I just load one after another in a synchronous matter? Also, I wonder,if I should create multiple xhr = new XMLHttpRequest() objects so that I could run multiple .open() ?

Thank you

Answer 1

You are using one variable to define the xhr request, and using that variable twice, thus overriding the variable the second time. You need to create a loop and use let xhr; instead of var xhr as let has a block scope, so each instance in the loop will be independently defined.

ie something like

// Create iterable list of URLS
let urls = ['localhost:3000/template1.html', 'localhost:3000/template2.html'];

// Loop through URLs and perform request
for(let i=0; i<urls.length; i++) {
    let xhr = new XMLHttpRequest();

    xhr.onload = function() {
        if(xhr.status === 200){
            storage.append(xhr.responseText);
        }
    }

    xhr.open('get', urls[i]);
    xhr.send();
}