MY FRONTEND AND BACKEND API EXAMPLES

A place to keep my frontend and backend API examples.

Table of Contents

• OVERVIEW
• BROWSER AS A CLIENT
• WEB SERVER AS A CLIENT
• BACKEND SERVER AS A CLIENT
• MULTI-HOP EXAMPLES

Documentation and Reference

• Offsite demos
• This repos github webpage built with concourse

OVERVIEW

The frontend usually consists of a browser. The backend may consist of a web server and/or a backend server(s). Lets figure out how they can talk with each other.

BROWSER AS A CLIENT

• get-data-from-web-server-to-browser-using-ajax-xhr-get-call

  Get data from a Web Server using an Ajax XMLHttpRequest (XHR) GET Call.

• send-data-from-browser-to-web-server-using-ajax-xhr-post-call

  Send data to a Web Server using an Ajax XMLHttpRequest (XHR) POST Call.

WEB SERVER AS A CLIENT

• get-data-from-backend-server-to-web-server-using-grpc-with-protobuf

  Get data from a Backend Server using gRPC with protobuf.

• send-data-from-web-server-to-backend-server-using-grpc-with-protobuf

  Send data to a Backend Server using gRPC with protobuf.

BACKEND SERVER AS A CLIENT

• get-data-from-backend-server-to-backend-server-using-grpc-with-protobuf

  Get data from a Backend Server using gRPC with protobuf.

• get-data-from-web-server-to-backend-server-using-grpc-with-protobuf

  Get data from a Web Server using gRPC with protobuf.

• send-data-from-backend-server-to-backend-server-using-grpc-with-protobuf

  Send data to a Backend Server using gRPC with protobuf.

• send-data-from-backend-server-to-web-server-using-grpc-with-protobuf

  Send data to a Web Server using gRPC with protobuf.

MULTI-HOP EXAMPLES

• send-data-from-browser-to-web-server-to-backend-server

  Send data to a Web Server using an Ajax XMLHttpRequest (XHR) POST Call to a Backend Server using gRPC with protobuf.