AJAX

acronym

web dev

Stands for: Asynchronous JavaScript and XML

A technique for updating a web page without a full reload.

Asynchronous JavaScript and XML refers to making background HTTP requests from a page and updating it in place. The name predates JSON, which has largely replaced XML as the payload, but the term stuck for in-page dynamic requests.

Also known as: ajax

Sources

MDN: AJAX

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