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JavaScript for .NET Developers

You're reading from   JavaScript for .NET Developers Developing for the modern web

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jul 2016
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781785886461
Length 390 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Ovais Mehboob Ahmed Khan Ovais Mehboob Ahmed Khan
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Preface 1. JavaScript for Modern Web Applications FREE CHAPTER 2. Advanced JavaScript Concepts 3. Using jQuery in ASP.NET 4. Ajax Techniques 5. Developing an ASP.NET Application Using Angular 2 and Web API 6. Exploring the WinJS Library 7. JavaScript Design Patterns 8. Node.js for ASP.NET Developers 9. Using JavaScript for Large-Scale Projects 10. Testing and Debugging JavaScript Index

Introducing Ajax

Ajax stands for Asynchronous JavaScript and XML; it creates asynchronous requests on server without sending and rendering the whole page again on client side, whereas it only sends a bit of information that needs to be sent out to the server and receives response in a specific format to update a specific section or the elements of DOM through JavaScript. This allows developers to develop responsive web applications and dynamically update the content of the page without reloading it every time for a particular action. For example, in a master-child page relationship, the child content is dependent on the parent item selection; and with a classic approach, every time the parent item is selected, the page is being posted back to the server side, where the server does some backend job to fill the child section and returns the HTML code, which is then rendered on the client side. Through Ajax, this can be achieved by making an asynchronous request to send the selected information...

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