API for beginners JavaScript Getting Started with APIs AJAX

Explore using JavaScript XHR and fetch to connect to multiple web API endpoints retrieve JSON data and update HTML.

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


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.

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.
Go ahead and hit that "take this course" button to start learning the how to use JavaScript to connect to web APIs Today.

Taught by an instructor with over 20 years of web development experience, ready to help you learn and answer any questions you may have.

What are you waiting join now to start learning JavaScript API connections, you have nothing to lose.

Who is the target audience?

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