Review
Topics Covered: AJAX
Exercises
E1: AJAX
Some quick refresher questions about AJAX.- What does AJAX stand for?
- What does AJAX actually do?
- We've already been using AJAX functionality in some of our Rails helpers. Name two of them.
- What are the benefits of using AJAX over vanilla web interactions?
E2: Meowbook: These are not the searches you're looking for
Meowbook now has a search bar, which is awesome. Unfortunately, the search itself is pretty slow. Right now we need to type in our query, hit enter, wait a while for the page to refresh and fetch information from the database, and only then do we finally get our search results.
Let's use AJAX to speed this up and create a search bar that matches the awesomeness of the rest of our site. Check out today's lecture if you get confused.
Project
It's Friday! But...make sure that your group checks in with Micah or TA at some point today.
