Cheat sheet: The browser's toolbox

The 33 terms of this lesson, part by part, with the French word a team in France would use.

1. A toolbox in every browser

Web APIAPI web: a ready-made tool built into every browser that a page's script can use, such as local storage or the camera.
Local storagestockage local: a place in the browser where a page keeps small things, such as a dark mode choice, on this device only.
localStoragelocalStorage: the JavaScript name for local storage, where setItem saves a value and getItem reads it.
Public feedAPI publique: data that a service publishes for any site to use, such as weather forecasts or train times.
Clipboardpresse-papiers: the place where copied text is kept until you paste it, such as a promo code copied with a button.
Static hosthébergeur statique: a service, such as GitHub Pages, that sends a site's files as they are, with no code of the site running on a server.
Dark modemode sombre: a second set of colours for a site, with dark backgrounds and light text.
Reduced motionréduire les animations: a system setting with which visitors ask for fewer animations, and which a well-made page respects.

Serverserveur: a computer that stays connected to the internet, sends pages to browsers and keeps the data that people share.
Local storagestockage local: a place in the browser where a page keeps small things, such as a dark mode choice, on this device only.
Page sourcecode source de la page: the HTML exactly as the server sent it, shown when you right-click a page and choose "View page source".
API keyclé d'API: a code that identifies a site to an outside service; a secret key must stay on a server, never in the page.
Third-party serviceservice tiers: a ready-made service that another company runs, such as a form or booking tool, used instead of your own server.

Static hosthébergeur statique: a service, such as GitHub Pages, that sends a site's files as they are, with no code of the site running on a server.
Serverserveur: a computer that stays connected to the internet, sends pages to browsers and keeps the data that people share.
Databasebase de données: an organised store of data on a server, such as every message left in a guestbook.
Public feedAPI publique: data that a service publishes for any site to use, such as weather forecasts or train times.
Third-party serviceservice tiers: a ready-made service that another company runs, such as a form or booking tool, used instead of your own server.
Terms of serviceconditions d'utilisation: the rules a service sets for its use, including its limits and prices, which it can change.

file://file://: the start of an address that means the browser opened the file straight from your disk, with no web server.
Web serverserveur web: a program that sends a site's files to browsers when they ask, on the internet or on your own computer.
Local serverserveur local: a web server running on your own computer, reached at an address that starts with http://localhost.
Requestrequête: a message that a browser sends to a server to ask for a file or data, or to send it something.
Data filefichier de données: a separate file, such as a list of quiz questions, that a page's script loads after the page.
AI agentagent d'IA: a program that reads and writes a project's files and runs commands, following your requests in a chat.
Back endback-end: the part of a site that runs on a server, such as accounts, data and rules, which visitors never see.
Static hosthébergeur statique: a service, such as GitHub Pages, that sends a site's files as they are, with no code of the site running on a server.

Serverserveur: a computer that stays connected to the internet, sends pages to browsers and keeps the data that people share.
Third-party serviceservice tiers: a ready-made service that another company runs, such as a form or booking tool, used instead of your own server.
Prototypeprototype: a first working version of a tool, made quickly to try an idea before building it properly.
Static hosthébergeur statique: a service, such as GitHub Pages, that sends a site's files as they are, with no code of the site running on a server.
Local serverserveur local: a web server running on your own computer, reached at an address that starts with http://localhost.
Data filefichier de données: a separate file, such as a list of quiz questions, that a page's script loads after the page.

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