superagent

See superagent where anything that's not a 2xx is treated as an error (https://github.com/visionmedia/superagent/issues/283)

The other responses seem to be answering how this would work once the hydration is occurring on the client side. I understood the question to be `Does the http request layer support doing API requests to routes which are on the same webserver as react-server`. There doesn't appear to be special handling for this use case. However, they use SuperAgent (https://github.com/visionmedia/superagent) for http requests and I expect implementing the behavior that you're describing is relatively easy with their plugin system. Specifically I'd bet that plugins previously designed for testing could be used to accomplish your goal (superagent-mock or superagent-mocker).

React seems to emphasize using regular javascript and existing NPM modules where possible. Superagent [1] seems to be a popular one, but you can find more on React's wiki [2]. If you start using a flux implementation like Redux, there are other interesting things you can do to handle api requests [3]. [1] https://github.com/visionmedia/superagent [2] https://github.com/facebook/react/wiki/Complementary-Tools#d... [3] http://redux.js.org/docs/advanced/index.html

Check out superagent for all your $.ajax-replacing needs. :-) https://github.com/visionmedia/superagent

I'm a fan of [superagent] for AJAX. The React lib is big, but its declarative nature has lead to fewer and easier-to-diagnose bugs for us, which is ultimately a win for the end user. I've been using it exclusively on new projects for months now and I'm a Backbone.js core contributor ;) superagent: https://github.com/visionmedia/superagent

This is not the case with the great library superagent[0], which I can confirm with a little test case I wrote. I have a server that returns a 401 when the Authorization header is missing, but I also like to return a JSON body with a little more information as to what went wrong (ie. the header is flat out missing or the credentials aren't being sent in the correct way, with a link to the documentation), and superagent allows you to output the `response.body` in the `end()` method callback. I think of superagent as the requests[1] of js. In fact, I usually require it under the name requests as they feel so similar. 0: https://github.com/visionmedia/superagent 1: http://docs.python-requests.org/en/latest/ EDIT: link formatting

I've used superagent (https://github.com/visionmedia/superagent) a number of times and it's wonderful, but beware if you're trying to make it work with old IE.