Lesson 27. Accessing Your API from Your Application

In this lesson, you change the way that you access JSON-formatted data by adding an API namespace. Then you modify your AJAX function to allow users to join courses directly from a modal. Last, you create the action to link users and courses through a new route.

This lesson covers

  • Creating an API namespace
  • Building a UI modal to fetch data asynchronously
  • Connecting models with MongoDB methods
Consider this

Users can now view course listings from any page on your application, but they want to do more than view that list. With AJAX requests, you can not only pull data asynchronously into the page, but also perform other actions, such as creating new records and editing existing ...

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