Chapter 11. Using AJAX with Django
AJAX is an acronym for Asynchronous JavaScript and XML. This technology allows a browser to asynchronously communicate with the server using JavaScript. Refreshing the web page is not necessarily required to perform an action on the server.
Many web applications have been released that run on AJAX. A web application is often described as a website containing only one page and which performs all operations with an AJAX server.
If you are not using a library, using AJAX requires a lot of lines of code to be compatible with several browsers. When including jQuery, it is possible to make easy AJAX requests while at the same time being compatible with many browsers.
In this chapter, we will cover:
- Working with JQuery ...
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