What JavaScript Frameworks are available to consume ASP.NET Web API Services

Question

I heard of Breeze.js

Is there any other JavaScript framework (api) available to consume web services?

Basically I want to make a client side GET request to a ASP.NET Web API and transform the response to a JavaScript object. I want to keep the web app as simple as possible.

Thanks.

Answer 1

You don't need a framework to consume web services from Web API, JavaScript has that ability natively.

http://www.w3schools.com/ajax/ajax_xmlhttprequest_send.asp

However, just about every JS framework has some type of helper to make these calls easy. Here are just a few:

• jQuery: https://api.jquery.com/jQuery.ajax/
• Dojo: http://dojotoolkit.org/reference-guide/1.9/dojo/request.html
• Prototype: http://prototypejs.org/doc/latest/ajax/Ajax/Request/