How to load the contents of a text file into a JavaScript variable?

Sometimes, we want to load the contents of a text file into a JavaScript variable.

In this article, we’ll look at how to load the contents of a text file into a JavaScript variable.

How to load the contents of a text file into a JavaScript variable?

To load the contents of a text file into a JavaScript variable, we call text from the response object that we get with fetch.

For instance, we write

const load = async (url) => {
  try {
    const response = await fetch(url);
    const data = await response.text();
    console.log(data);
  } catch (err) {
    console.error(err);
  }
};

load("https://example.com");

to create the load function that calls fetch to make a GET request to the url.

Then we call response.text to get the response body as a text string.

Conclusion

To load the contents of a text file into a JavaScript variable, we call text from the response object that we get with fetch.