Load JSON data without AJAX

Question

In my small JS web-application, I use some JSON data.

The data is on server in a separate static .json file.

My application, being small, does not use any frameworks, not even jQuery. And I do not want to mess with XMLHTTPRequest myself.

Is there a way to load my JSON data without AJAX? (And without renaming the file to .js and imitating JSONP or including the data in existing JS sources.)

It is OK if it will work only in modern browsers.

It seems less than sensible to declare a web application 'too small to use jQuery' when it will be processing a potentially 10mb JSON object. — Tetsujin no Oni
– Tetsujin no Oni, Commented Sep 28, 2013 at 21:40
@Tetsujin, Yes - but there is really good reason in trying anything to avoid the inclusion of a 9789 lines library (not minified), if the same thing easily can be done in pure javascript. — davidkonrad
– davidkonrad, Commented Sep 28, 2013 at 21:53
@davidkonrad: I am both with you on that, and at the same time consider jquery-current to be the equivalent of MSVCRT(current).dll as a dependency. Certainly not worried about 9kloc unminified when we're talking about js that's a 304 on a well-configured reference. — Tetsujin no Oni
– Tetsujin no Oni, Commented Sep 28, 2013 at 21:56

Community · Accepted Answer · 2017-05-23 12:13:46Z

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There aren't any sensible ways.

You might be able to display it in an iframe and read it from there, but (since you will have to deal with timing issues) that is at least as complicated as using XMLHttpRequest, and risks browsers deciding that JSON should be downloaded instead of rendered.

Use XMLHttpRequest. It isn't complicated.

edited May 23, 2017 at 12:13

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Alexander Gladysh Over a year ago

While using XMLHTTPRequest is not complicated, it requires me to switch from file:// to an actual HTTP server for my development workflow. Which is a little more cumbersome. But, thanks to python -mSimpleHTTPServer, not too much.

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