JavaScript and Django

🎯 This week’s topics

• Using asynchronous JavaScript (fetch) in Django
  • external api’s
  • your own internal api’s
  • form submissions without page reload

🔖 Assignment for this week

Continue with Django Flash Cards focusing on these aspects of the project:

• “Flipping” a card
• Adding and deleting cards using fetch
• Recording whether you got the question right or wrong

References

📹 Videos

From Class

• Adding JS to your app Access Passcode: 2UA*4d?7
• Django Walkthrough Passcode: 4%S!pSC+
• Fetch and API’s Passcode: 4%S!pSC+
• API Call and Response with Fetch Access Passcode: .W!0RM5q

Others

• JS Query Selectors
• JS Events
• Asynchronous JavaScript
• More Asynchronous JavaScript

🕸 Websites

• Illustrated JavaScript Asynchronous Behavior
• Illustrated Introduction to API’s
• Request/Response cycle
  • https://www.technoarchsoftwares.com/blog/django-request-response-cycle/
  • https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Learn/Common_questions/What_is_a_web_server
  • https://blog.postman.com/intro-to-apis-what-is-an-api/
• Building your own API with DRF
• Build a Game with JavaScript

🦉 Notes

• JS Ajax

💾 Code Examples

• Dom Manipulation CodePen
• Django Studio Example