AJAX API exercise Crypto Currency Data Application
What you'll learn
- Create AJAX requests to web APIs
- Build a simple application from scratch
- Setup an express server to locally practice AJAX
Course content
- Preview02:22
- Preview03:00
- 03:13Setup Server with Packages
- 02:25Setup Static Index file
- Preview05:50
- 00:12Source Code 4
- 06:19Output Data to HTML
- 05:25Get individual Currency Details
- 08:25Node Requests with Routes
- 00:19Source Code 7
- 09:15Update with New Routes
- 03:35More Route Options
- 06:09Last Route Setup
- 00:02Source Code Final and Resources
Requirements
- basic JavaScript HTML
- computer access
- desire to learn and practice AJAX
Description
Welcome to our JavaScript Crypto Currency API practice course.
Within the lessons of this course you will learn how to use AJAX and Request to connect to a web API and retrieve JSON data, then output that data onto your Web Page.... YES AJAX!!!!
Perfect course for beginners to learn more about connecting to web endpoints, handling CORS errors, different options for HTTP requests and how to handle data and iterate through it to output within a web format.
Core focus of this course is to practice and learn using an API within this unique and fun exercise building a Crypto Currency Information Application from scratch. Crypto currencies are really popular and with many web APIs this course is ideal to explore and learn more about how you can get that data into your own application.
Course technology used - Node.js jQuery UI, JavaScript, HTML, JSON and more
Learn within the upcoming lessons
- Setup a local server using Express and practice AJAX requests locally
- Avoid local CORS errors and sending requests from the backend
- Using request to connect to web APIs
- Using jQuery ajax shorthand to connect to web apis
- See how you can add jQuery UI to create quick and cool functionality within your code
- Multiple ways to make AJAX requests including fetch and jQuery
- Explore retrieving and updating API data on the backend before it comes to the frontend
Step by step lessons, helping you setup and create the web application from scratch.
Source Code is included to help you easily copy and paste code as well as review code after lessons discussing it.
Friendly helpful support available in the Q&A section to help you learn better
Personal support and instruction from a web developer with over 18 years of experience, ready to help you learn.
Join now, have some fun building out this application and seeing what you can build online.
Who this course is for:
- Anyone who wants to learn more about AJAX
- JavaScript beginners
- Web developers
- Anyone new to Nodejs and AJAX
Instructor
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