Handling ajax with React

Just in case anybody stumbled upon this and does not know, jQuery makes it super easy to send AJAX calls. Since React is just JavaScript it will work just like any other jQuery AJAX call.

React’s own documentation uses jQuery to make the AJAX call so I assume that’s good enough for most purposes regardless or stack.

componentDidMount: function() {
    $.ajax({
      url: this.props.url,
      dataType: 'json',
      cache: false,
      success: function(data) {
        this.setState({data: data});
      }.bind(this),
      error: function(xhr, status, err) {
        console.error(this.props.url, status, err.toString());
      }.bind(this)
    });
  },