Form Data Vs API Payload: Choosing The Right Tool For Your Web App
Choose between form data for web forms & files and API payloads for modern APIs & nesting. Form data is old-school, used by browsers, while API payloads are newer, more versatile.
Form Data vs. API Payload: What's the Deal? When you're sending data in a web app, you often encounter two common ways to structure that information: form data and API payloads. While they seem to do the same job—transmitting data—how they work under the hood makes a world of difference. Let’s break it down! What’s Form Data? Think of form data as the old-school way of submitting information, like filling out a form on a website. It’s been around since the dawn of the web, and it still thrives in browsers today. Form data has two main flavors: 1. application/x-www-form-...