Summary

The examples provided throughout this chapter demonstrate a simple way to construct and work with your newly created API, in a variety of ways! If you want to give your app an SPA-like feel, the simplest implementation is to use the vanilla JavaScript fetch() function or the jQuery ajax() function. Instead of writing your own actions with either of these two functions, you could settle upon using a JavaScript-based framework, such as React, AngularJS, or Vue.js, just to name a few. The JavaScript-based frameworks can format and style your HTML on the client side. One of the template-based approaches provided in this chapter also demonstrates how this work can be transferred from the client side onto the server side. This provides you with numerous tools in your toolbox, in regard to building and working with an API.

We also learned how to work with authentication tokens and discovered that we can still work with tokens when formatting HTML on the server side. However, the...