AJAX

Question 1

What is AJAX?

Answer 1

AJAX stands for Asynchronous Javascript and XML, it a web develpment technique used to send and recive data in in the background/in an asynchronous manner between web browsers and web servers, without reloading the entire page.

Question 2

How does AJAX work?

Answer 2

A user performs an action on the web page like clicking a button, javascrpt the responds to this action by send a request to the server, AJAX sends request is sent asynchronously meanin the page does freeze, reload or stop other js from runing, the server process the request and sends back a response AJAX recices the response, based on the response javascript udats part of the web page dynamically without re-freshing the page