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Re:The next Google by radicality on Tuesday April 05, 2022 @11:19PM (#30928113)
Is it always about analytics? Or is it ocassionaly also a useful API for other tasks?

I know little about front end JS dev, but the docs say it’s just a way to send an asynchronous request (no response) with a guarantee that the the request will be sent out, even if the page starts unloading. That’s apparently not a guarantee with the two other to send requests - XmlHttpRequest and fetch api.

Re:The next Google by 312c on Tuesday April 05, 2022 @11:33PM (#30928194)
The beacon api was created specifically to be a lightweight method for telemetry/logging