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JavaScript and JSON Essentials

You're reading from   JavaScript and JSON Essentials Build light weight, scalable, and faster web applications with the power of JSON

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Product type Paperback
Published in Apr 2018
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ISBN-13 9781788624701
Length 226 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Sai S Sriparasa Sai S Sriparasa
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Bruno Joseph D'mello Bruno Joseph D'mello
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Preface 1. Getting Started with JSON 2. The JSON Structures FREE CHAPTER 3. AJAX Requests with JSON 4. Cross-Domain Asynchronous Requests 5. Debugging JSON 6. Building the Carousel Application 7. Alternate Implementations of JSON 8. Introduction to hapi.js 9. Storing JSON Documents in MongoDB 10. Configuring the Task Runner Using JSON 11. JSON for Real-Time and Distributed Data 12. Case Studies in JSON 13. Other Books You May Enjoy

Inserting external JavaScript

In real-world applications, JSON can be retrieved either as a response from an asynchronous request or from a JSON feed. A website uses HTML, CSS, and JavaScript to provide a visually beautiful user interface. But there are cases where data vendors are only focused on getting data. A data feed serves their purpose; a feed is a crude way of supplying data so that others can reuse it to display the data on their websites or to ingest the data and run their algorithms on it. Such data feeds are big and cannot be directly embedded into the script tag. Let us look at how external JavaScript files can be included in an HTML file.

The following screenshot depicts the code for the external-js.html file:

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<html>
<head>
<title>Include external javascript</title>
<script type="text/javascript" src=&quot...
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