To Do (for newcomer)

Interested in understanding this codebase and remixing it?

• First, read comments in github.html
  • Understand the basic version first
• Create your own version of loadFile.js from loadFile.js.txt
  • this will be required for the application's parallel Promises triggering

Promises - Research

• Promise repo

  • https://github.com/sindresorhus/promise-fun
  • https://gitter.im/promisefun/Lobby (gitter room)
  • http://bit.ly/understandingPromises
  • http://j.mp/usePromiseInsteadOfCallbacks
  • https://github.com/sindresorhus/p-settle

• JavaScript bookmarklet code to get URL of tab that was launched from current tab

  • http://bit.ly/promiseBasics

    • https://javascript.info/promise-api
    • https://javascript.info/async-await

  • http://bit.ly/promiseIncremental

  • http://j.mp/promiseIn16

  • Using Promises in bookmarklet

Important Documentation

• http://api.jquery.com/jQuery.get/
• http://api.jquery.com/jQuery.getJSON/

Ajax tutorial

Start here - https://javascript.info/xmlhttprequest

http://www.kaidez.com/ajax-tutorial/

• Alternatives
  • https://webdesign.tutsplus.com/tutorials/how-to-use-jquerys-ajax-function--cms-25774
  • http://www.tutorialsteacher.com/jquery/jquery-ajax-introduction

Must read

The seminal article introducing AJAX by Jesse James Garrett, titled A New Approach to Web Applications

• http://adaptivepath.com/ideas/ajax-new-approach-web-applications/
• Important image to reflect on

  

Notes

• how to resolve 404 error

• proceeding to section 6 on Ajax and jQuery