Developer-roadmap: Add AJAX to front-end developement

[NonameSLdev]

AJAX needs to be added to front end development. Not much to add here :P

[luchillo17]

Really? AJAX? is that hard and wide subject to need a separate node from JS?

[kamranahmedse]

Hi @NonameSLdev, thank you for reporting but I agree with @luchillo17; I don't think ajax specifically needs a mention.

[NonameSLdev]

@luchillo17 Is npm such a wide and hard subject that we need to seperate? No, but it's necessary for front-end devs.
@kamranahmedse It's not a wide subject but it's pretty much necessary for frontend devs. Adding it wouldn't hurt and even help people who don't know about it. In order to become a front end developer you need to know ajax, so why not? That's the exact description of this project

[luchillo17]

@NonameSLdev Actually npm can be very complex with version control, and version compatibility, npm is a building block of today's development.

I don't see ajax as a subject to learn but rather a technique for http requests, if so we would have to add all other possible like XHR, Fetch, Web Sockets...

Maybe i'm being impartial since i think AJAX is too easy, but i think it doesn't need a mention.

[garrettw]

If I'm not mistaken, XHR is AJAX.

[NonameSLdev]

@luchillo17 But it is needed. For a lot of websites it's necessary, and without AJAX they can't operate. So why shouldn't it be added? Let's add it after the "Getting Deeper" section. Developers need to know it, thus making this roadmap incomplete. @kamranahmedse

[garrettw]

AJAX is a technique. It's true that many websites rely on asynchronous communication to accomplish their goals, but actual AJAX (which requires XML) is only one way of doing it. Async JS is a good skill to have, but these days you really don't have to know the vanilla JS way of doing it because there are many libraries that make it easier, some of which are in the roadmap already. I would be willing to bet that very few devs actually write async JS without relying on any library.

[luchillo17]

In the Required for any path section in top-left corner it says HTTP/HTTPS and API's, that section already should cover the Ajax technique, unless we want to cluster the graph to expand on that node, i think it shouldn't be included.

Though that's my opinion, if more people say it should than the people that say it should not...