Data

CORSify your data

Posted in Data, Usage by Admin

Cross-origin resource sharing (CORS) is a mechanism that allows pages, files or data to be requested from another domain outside the domain from which the resource originated. Web-browsers normally prevent Javascript to access data outside of the domain, unless that domain responds with a CORS header. If you are loading data dynamically using JQuery AJAX calls, you know what CORS is and headaches it causes. 

CORSify makes any link, page or data file CORS friendly, wherever it is located.

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World Bank API as data source

Posted in Data by Admin

The World Bank provides a lot of data through APIs. You can use that data directly in Quips and connect it to your app even though the World Bank does not provide any support for HTTPS or CORS. Quips takes care of that.

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Using data inside Jade

Posted in Data, Usage by Admin

Jade becomes powerful only once you send data to it. Quips allows you to specify any datasource on the web and use it in Jade.

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