Lesson 11
This Lesson’s Focus: Learn AJAX (continued)
In the last lesson, there were some challenges on the Cake Website that let you dynamically fill in the content of your website from a json file. In production or on a normal website, a json file is not stored on the front-end. You will use something called AJAX to request the necessary json data from the backend. Then you can use that data to fill in the content on your site.
Course Work
Assignment: Learn AJAX
Read: To give you a little introduction to AJAX, read this nicely laid out blog post. It’s a
simple and quick read to prep you for the beginning of the CodeSchool AJAX course.
Intro To AJAX
Take Course: All you need to complete the CodeSchool project below is the FIRST LEVEL of this course.
But if you feel inclined to take more while you are in there… go for it!
CodeSchool - jQuery: The Return Flight
Do: CodeSchool has mini projects to help you apply what you learn on the way. They use GitHub to fork and clone projects just like we do! They even have a handy way to check your project (if you keep committing and then pushing to GitHub). The instructions are pretty good… if you get stuck, reach out to a mentor!
Use jQuery to Fetch and Show CodeSchool Badges using AJAX