ELI5: Explain Like I'm 5

Ayaks

Ayaks is not a concept that exists. It is possible that you meant to ask about AJAX. AJAX stands for Asynchronous Javascript And XML.

When you visit a website, it often looks like it’s just one page, but actually, a bunch of things are happening behind the scenes. One of those things is data is being sent back and forth between your computer and the website’s servers.

Before AJAX, websites would need to load a whole new page every time you clicked on something or submitted a form. This meant that you would see a lot of loading screens and things would feel slow.

AJAX changed this by allowing websites to send and receive data without having to reload the whole page. It allows certain parts of the page to be updated without having to refresh everything.

This makes for a faster, smoother experience for you as a user. Imagine you are playing a game and you need to submit your “score” to the website's server. Instead of loading an entirely new webpage, AJAX can send that information to the server and update the score without refreshing the entire page.

In summary, AJAX is a tool developers use to make webpages faster and smoother by allowing certain parts of a webpage to be updated without reloading everything.