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Use fetch over $.ajax
While good, hardly any browser supports this except everything thats greenfield. IMO its clearer that it stay as $.ajax since most are at least familiar with jQuery AJAX calls, even if they don't use them.
73% usage relative...
That may be the case for browsers, but fetch is uncommon in most client code. There are notable disadvantages to using fetch and I would wager that most developers have not used fetch in production.
The guide is meant to be clear and instructive, as opposed to forcing developers to research the fetch API.
https://medium.com/@thejasonfile/fetch-vs-axios-js-for-making-http-requests-2b261cdd3af5
(separately, fetch isn't really meant to be used directly; it's a low-level primitive for libraries to abstract over)
