use fetch request to upload form data #859
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closes: #574
This change prevents the default behavior of a
<form>
element'sonSubmit
event handler. Instead of navigating away from the current page to submit form data, it is sent to the server via a Javascriptfetch
request. We do not push form data into the URL (this behavior will be left to third party packages like idom-router).Improving form submission behavior will allow users to use form elements to send, among other things, file data to servers. For example, the following will now be possible:
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