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There is perhaps no bigger revolution that propelled JavaScript to where it is today than Ajax. This paradigm shift that started in the early 2000s brought JavaScript back to the center of Web development and restored the luster it had lost during its early years. And this whole revolution happened because of the rediscovery of a very interesting object called the XMLHttpRequest.
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Obcena, M.J. (2010). Request. In: Pro JavaScript with MooTools. Apress, Berkeley, CA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4302-3055-7_11
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