Today as I was working on the capstone project for my Meta course I got to the component involving a form to submit. In order to properly submit the form your app interacts with an API hosted on the GitHub account of Meta. The course instructs you to put script tags in your index.html file pointing to some JavaScript code that simulates a simple database. However, when I ran my app I got an error in the console that the resource was blocked due to a MIME type mismatch, and the loading of the script failed. What is MIME? This stands for Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions and they indicate what type of data a file contains and how it should be treated by web browsers and servers. When a browser requests a file from a server, the server returns the file along with a MIME type, and the browser handles the file accordingly. Common MIME types today include "application/javascript" and "text/javascript". By specifying the type explicitly, the resource from GitHub was loaded without error.
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