AJAX & Working with JSON

Today’s topics

Today we will spend more time working with AJAX, JSON data, and DOM manipulation.

Afternoon Workshop / Lab

For the rest of the day we are going to be working in pairs.

Have you finished the GitHub Profile assignment? (*finished means you have all the necessary data showing up in the DOM)

• YES: Great. You’re working on the Currency Converter project.
• NO: OK. You’re working on the GitHub Profile. It is DUE AT 4:00 pm today.
• YES and NO: If your partner is not finished with the GitHub profile assignment, please help them where they are stuck, and then move on to the Currency Converter.

Project Duos

• Jon & Babacar
• David & Kendall
• Derek & Nathan
• Kim & Charlette
• Phil & Tom

Project

Currency Converter

Link to assignment invitation

🔖 Resources

• MDN select element
• MDN change event

AJAX & Fetch

• AJAX explained by analogy
• MDN AJAX
• MDN Fetch API
• MDN fetch() method
• CSS-Tricks article on using Fetch