Microsoft Ajax CDN
Microsoft Ajax CDN: Hosts JavaScript Libraries
The Microsoft Ajax CDN hosts popular JavaScript libraries like jQuery and enables developers to include them in their web applications. Using a CDN can improve page load times.
What is Microsoft Ajax CDN?
The Microsoft Ajax CDN (Content Delivery Network) is a free CDN hosted by Microsoft that allows developers to include popular JavaScript libraries like jQuery, React, Angular, and others in their web applications. By using the CDN links to these libraries instead of hosting them yourself, you can significantly improve page load times since they will be loaded from caching servers that are geographically close to each end user.
Some of the benefits of using the Microsoft Ajax CDN include:
- Faster page load times - resources are served from edge servers closer to users
- Better caching - resources are cached and served to other users who visit sites using the libraries
- Reduce server load - saves bandwidth/resources on your own servers
- Integrity checks - files hosted have SRI checks to verify integrity
- CDN fallback - if CDN fails for any reason, browsers will load files from your servers
- Automatically updated libraries - Microsoft maintains latest versions
To use the CDN, you just need to reference the JS file URLs it provides. The CDN handles serving the actual files from data centers globally. It's easy to set up and most web developers use CDNs today for faster sites.
Microsoft Ajax CDN Features
Features
- Hosts popular JavaScript libraries like jQuery, React, AngularJS
- Enables adding external scripts to web apps from CDN instead of hosting locally
- Improves page load times by serving files from edge locations closer to users
- Provides fallback to local scripts if CDN is unavailable
- Supports HTTP/2 and TLS 1.2 protocols
- Integrates seamlessly with ASP.NET AJAX and ASP.NET MVC
Pricing
- Free
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