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- Ways of Talking to a Backend: From HTML Forms to GraphQL2/6
AJAX: When a Request Stopped Meaning a Page Reload
XHR did not change the protocol, only the reader of the response. Status, headers and the origin boundary stopped being the browser's business and became the…
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HTML Forms: Backend Communication Without JavaScript
A form is not an API helper. The browser itself serializes the controls, builds the request and treats the response as a new document.
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Ways of Talking to a Backend: From HTML Forms to GraphQL
The layers of frontend to backend communication from the bottom up: forms, XHR and fetch start the request, HTTP carries it, and REST, RPC and GraphQL model…