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What's a Webhook?

 A webhook is an API concept that's growing in popularity. As more and more of what we do on the web can be described by events, webhooks are becoming even more applicable. They're incredibly useful and a resource-light way to implement event reactions. So, what exactly is a webhook? A webhook is a way for an app to provide other application with real-time information. A webhook delivers data to other application as it happens, meaning you get data immediately. Unlike typical APIs where you would need to poll for data very frequently in order to get it real-time. This makes webhooks much more efficient for both provider and  consumer. The only drawback to webhooks is the difficulty of initially setting them up. Webhooks are sometimes referred to as "Reverse APIs," as they give you what amounts to an API spec, and you must design and API for the werbhook to use. The webhook will make an HTTP request to your app and you will then be charged with interpreting it.

What is a programming language?

 When beginning your coding journey, you may find yourself asking, "What exactly is a programming language?"   The code is pretty much like writing a paragraph of instruction or creating a to-do list to computers. Unlike us humans, the to-do list and instructions you write for the computer has to be extremely detailed and written in some logic. With code and programming, you can get to draw complex shapes and create rich computer graphics,

What is jQuery

 jQuery is a lightweight, "write less, do more", JavaScript library. The purpose of jQuery is to make it much easier to use JavaScript on your website. jQuery takes a lot of common tasks that require many lines of JavaScript code to accomplish, and wraps them into methods that you can call with a single line of code.  jQuery also simplifies a lot the complicated things from JavaScript, like AJAX calls and DOM manipulation. The jQuery library contains the following features: HTML/DOM manipulation  CSS manipulation  HTML event methods  Effects and animations  AJAX Utilities Tip: In addition, jQuery has plugins for almost any task out there.