API for beginners JavaScript Getting Started with APIs AJAX
What you'll learn
- Use AJAX to get JSON data into their web pages
- Use XHR requests to connect to servers and APIs
- Explore how to connect to APIs
Course content
- Preview04:13
- 00:24Source Code and downloadable files for the course.
- 04:53web developer setup
- 04:57JavaScript XHR request AJAX
- 02:49Tweak and Adjust AJAX request
- 04:53JSON methods Parse to JavaScript Objects
- 01:49Quick Jokes api Click Button Get Joke
- Preview02:35
- 08:52Getting Results AJAX
- Preview02:15
- 04:22Introduction JavaScript fetch
- Preview02:15
- 03:47fetch response methods
- Preview01:25
- 02:13Fetch Adding Headers Params
- 03:26Using myJSON endpoints
- 02:19Short functions new JavaScript
- 05:54More fun with APIs
- 06:03Country Questions mini app
- 04:26Country Application complete.
- 01:54API Conclusion Lesson
- 00:04Resources and Source Code
Requirements
- JavaScript Experience and HTML and CSS
- You should have web development Experience
Description
Access several popular web APIs and retrieve response content for web applications. Step by step instruction on how to access web APIs using JavaScript XHR and fetch to get JSON data and update your web content.
JavaScript is a prerequisite to this course - do not take this course if you do not have JavaScript core knowledge
HTML and using an editor is also a prerequisite to the course - the scope of the course is to focus on JavaScript APIs
This course covers how to make AJAX requests using the XMLHttpRequest within JavaScript as well as fetch. JavaScript code knowledge is a prerequisite for the course. Scope of this course is focused on using JavaScript to connect to web APIs.
Examples and source code accessing over 7 different APIs
Course Covers
Explore what XHR is and how it works
How to use JSON response data
Connect to Joke API to get new content and update it in your HTML page
JavaScript Objects and how it relates to JSON data
How to iterate JSON data and output it on your HTML
Use JavaScript fetch
Error handling and responses
Setting up your own JSON endpoints to practice connecting to JSON content
ES6 JavaScript fetch and short functions
Learn how to build an api that output country data
Online resources and more
Connecting to web APIs
Practice AJAX
You'll get friendly support in the Q&A area and all the source code available for download.
You will be amazed at how easy it can be to do some much.
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Who this course is for:
- Web developers who want to practice connecting to APIs
- Anyone who wants to use JavaScript xHR to connect to APIs
- Anyone who wants to use JavaScript fetch to connect to APIs
- Anyone who wants to learn more about XHR
- JavaScript developers
Instructor
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