Category: Web APIs

Geolocation API The Geolocation API is a web API that provides a JavaScript interface to access the user’s geographical location data. A Geolocation API contains the various methods and properties that you can use to access the user’s location on your website. It detects the location of the user’s using the device’s GPS. The accuracy of the location…

What is a Fetch API? The JavaScript Fetch API is a web API that allows a web browser to make HTTP request to the web server. In JavaScript, the fetch API is introduced in the ES6 version. It is an alternative of the XMLHttpRequest (XHR) object, used to make a ‘GET’, ‘POST’, ‘PUT’, or ‘DELETE’ request to…

Web Worker API The worker API is a web API that allows us to run JavaScript code in the background thread. Whenever the web page loads in the browser, it becomes interactive after every <script> tag loads in the browser. Web workers allows users to interact with the web page without loading the whole JavaScript code in the browser.…

Web Forms API JavaScript Forms API is a web API that allows us to interact with and manipulate HTML forms. It provides a set of methods and properties that are used to perform client-side form validation. Its also helpful to ensure data integrity before form submission. The forms API also referred to as Form Validation API or…

What is Web Storage API? The web storage API in JavaScript allows us to store the data in the user’s local system or hard disk. Before the storage API was introduced in JavaScript, cookies were used to store the data in the user’s browser. The main problem with the cookies is that whenever browsers request…

Web History API In JavaScript, the history API allows us to access the browsers history. It can be used to navigate through the history. JavaScript History API provides us with methods to manipulate window history object. History object is a property of JavaScript window object. The window history object contains the array of visited URLs in the…

A Web API is an application programming interface (API) for web. The concept of the Web API is not limited to JavaScript only. It can be used with any programming language. Lets learn what web API is first. What is Web API? The API is an acronym for the Application Programming Interface. It is a…