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What's an AJAX??

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AJAX, short for Asynchronous Javascript And XML is a set of web development techniques that allows web pages to be updated asynchronously by exchanging data with a web server behind the scenes. This is simply a modification of a web page, without reloading it. In modern implementations, developers commonly utilize JSON instead of XML due to the advantage of JSON being native to javascript. AJAX is not a programming language, but a combination of browser build in XMLHttpRequest object, Javascript and HTML.  So in this word AJAX, as i previously mentioned, it means " Asynchronous Javascript And XML". In here, Asynchronous means, in the background or not requiring a page refresh. You all know what's "Javascript" means 😅. XML is a data format that very similar to JSON.  So, as i mentioned earlier, modern development is using JSON rather than XML when it comes to AJAXs. So I guess we can call this as AJAJ - Asynchronous Javascript And Jason,  because...