Question

I have an online storage account that I`m using for my homepage. Basically I have just made an “index.html” and stored there . and no php , asp is possible .

So If I must create a message form on the homepage and store the message in a separate text file in JSON format ,can it be done using javascript ?
also I need to query the Text file whenver I want to display the messages using javascript .

So far , I tried TaffyDB but realised it doesn`t have a way to persist the data after session closes. or maybe I missed something?
Thanks!

Answer 1

Short answer. No.

The JavaScript is client side. So it can do all sorts of cool stuff on the persons computer that visits your site but unless you’re running some server side code that takes the JSON encoded data and does something with it then you’re out of luck.

There are many alternatives.

If you don’t want to run your own server side code then you could use a separate service like Parse.com that does REST and has a comprehensive API.

• A mobile website can access Parse data from Javascript.
• A webserver can show data from Parse on a website.
• You can upload large amounts of data that will later be consumed in a mobile app.
• You can download recent data to run your own custom analytics.
• Applications written in any programming language can interact with data on Parse.
• You can export all of your data if you no longer want to use Parse.