24 AJAX and JSON
In this chapter, you are going to learn how to query data using web APIs and to create your own web API for accessing synth patch data to use in a web audio synthesizer. Third-party web services commonly allow a portion of their data to be accessible via a web API. This gives you the ability to query data on their server and use their data in your applications. An example is the iTunes public search API that lets developers search media titles in the iTunes store. To begin, you must first learn about two technologies: AJAX and JSON.
AJAX
AJAX is an acronym that stands for Asynchronous JavaScript and XML. This is a technology ...
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