elitejax

elitejax

Simplifying Ajax Requests Using HTML attributes

Introduction

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Elitejax is a standalone javascript library that makes AJAX requests a lot more easier without you writing a single line of javascript.

All you have to do is add data-elitejax="true" attribute to your form tag and you are good to go

Example

• To send an AJAX request to the spotify API Endpoint, searching for artists by name:

<form data-elitejax="true" name="spotify" action="https://api.spotify.com/v1/search" method="get">
  Enter Artist name: <input type="text" name="q"><br />
  <input type="hidden" name="type" value="artist">
  <input type="submit" value="Submit">
</form>

<!-- include elitejax library from bower components directory -->
<script src="bower_components/elitejax/build/elitejax.min.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

Installation

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You can install this library by cloning this git and reference the javascript files from the build directory, using npm:

npm install elitejax --save

or using bower:

bower install elitejax

NB: You can't load elitejax as a node module

Sample Usage Video

Exclude form field

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To exclude a form field in your form from your AJAX request, you can add data-ej-x attribute to that field, like:

<!-- below form field will be ignored -->
<input type="input" data-elitejax-x />

Adding custom configurations

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Due to elitejax's flexibility, you can add custom configuration for each form in your webpage. First specify a name for your form and then use it with ej.configure, like so:

<form data-elitejax="true" name="spotify" action="https://api.spotify.com/v1/search" method="get">
.....

</form>
<!-- include elitejax library from bower components directory -->
<script src="bower_components/elitejax/build/elitejax.min.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
<script type="text/javascript">
    elitejax.configure('spotify'[, {configuration}]);
</script>

The configuration object argument for the configure method takes 4 parameters:

• async default: true : You can set this to true or false

• cType default: "application/json" : This is the content type header.

• resType default: "json" : This is the response type of the AJAX query, you can use jsonp for cross domain requests.

• callback default: function : The default callback logs the data to the console. You can specify your callback function for when the request completes successfully

Making Custom AJAX requests

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You can use the elitejax ajaxIt method to send a custom AJAX request:

elitejax.ajaxIt(url, method, data[, requestName]);

• url (string) : the API Endpoint or url the request is to be made to.
• method (string) : can be get/post/delete/put request type.
• data (object) : data you want to send to the url
• requestName - optional (string) : The name you want to give to your AJAX request. You need to set this if you want to use custom configuration (the elitejax configure method) with your AJAX request.

So, we can customize the spotify API call to run on page load instead of depending on user interaction like so:

<script src="bower_components/elitejax/build/elitejax.min.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
<script type="text/javascript">
  window.onload = function () {
    var data = {
      q: 'Justin',
      type: 'artist'
    }
    elitejax.ajaxIt('https://api.spotify.com/v1/search', 'get', data, 'spotifyCustom');
  }
</script>

License

Elitejax is Licensed under the MIT License

Contributing

Please do! Send a pull request after your modifications.

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