Jquery.get() asynchronous or synchronous?

Question

I’ve seen the official documentation here and I do not see mention that the default value is asynchronous or synchronous, I see no example of how to use both (in the second code below).

I know it works that way:

$.ajax({
  url: url,
  async: false,
  data: data,
  success: success,
  dataType: dataType
});

The following code does not exist async ?

$.get( "test.cgi", { name: "John", time: "2pm" } )
  .done(function( data ) {
    alert( "Data Loaded: " + data );
  });

The second code do not know if the default value async is as true or false.

Answer 1

Explanation

Yes, the method $.get is asynchronous, it is an abbreviated form of the code below.

$.ajax({
  url: url,
  data: data,
  success: success,
  dataType: dataType
});

According to the method documentation $.ajax, we can observe that the value of async, is, by default, true.

Answer 2

All Ajax by default is asynchronous. The method $.get is a short form (shorthand) of $.ajax using the GET method and, because it is the short form, the only parameters are, according to the documentation mentioned:

jQuery.get( url [, data ] [, success ] [, dataType ] )

• URL: page to be requested
• data: values to be sent to the server
• Function: this function is the success if the request was successful
• dataType: expected data type

There are other callbacks like done, fail, always, each with its own function.

If you want to use async: false will have to use the standard method $.ajax. What is neither recommended as explained in this answer.