title: Get response data from post request in ajax/jquery
body: <p>I'm building a website and server and I need to get some data from my server. I made the server so that I have to post a json string with a lightID and a string. The response I should get is in json format. I know the response from the server is working because I can see it in the developers console in chrome. There I can look at the XHR data and see in the response tab the json I expected. I need to know how I can pass this response into another function on the website to use the data. </p>
  
  <p>If someone knows the answers it would be really helpfull. The answers I found while googling didn't work for me or I didn't understand them right...</p>
  
  <pre><code>function dataNew(){
          request = {lightID: 'livingroom'};
          url = "data"
          $.ajax({
              url: url,
              dataType: 'json',
              type: 'post',
              contentType: 'application/json',
              data: JSON.stringify(request)
          });
          console.log("dirk")
  
      }
  </code></pre>