Day 16: The fetch api & build tools
What I’ve done today
Today I learned how to use the fetch api in Javascript instead of relying on jQuery or other libraries for doing ajax calls.
Furthermore I managed to install and configure the build tools for building node-sass on my windows machine.
node-gyp had to be configured correctly to allow node-sass to compile while doing yarn install - this took way to long.
After trying to do it by hand I found out that npm install -g windows-build-tools is a bit easier.. but it still did not work.
Finally npm config set msvs_version 2015 Did the job…
What I’m planning to do next
Now that node-sass finally works I wanna try out popmotion.js! Popmotion is a functional, flexible JavaScript motion library.
Learnings today:
- npm install -g windows-build-tools instead of doing everything by hand
- Use the javascript fetch api with different connection methods and headers (and the request object)