10 Processing Forms with JavaScript
CoffeeRun is off to a good start. It has two JavaScript modules that handle its internal logic and an HTML form styled with Bootstrap. In this chapter, you will write a more complex module that connects the form to the logic, allowing you to use the form to enter coffee orders.
Recall from Chapter 2 that browsers communicate with
servers by sending requests for information for a particular URL. Specifically,
for every file that the browser needs to load, it sends a GET
request to the server for that file.
When the browser needs to send information to a server, such as
when a user fills out and submits a form, the browser takes the form data and puts it
in a POST request. The server receives ...
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