Accessing Taxonomy Term Store with JSOM

This blog will show you how to access the Taxonomy Term Store, how to iterate through all the items. How to add a Group, TermSet and Term, and lastly how to delete them. The Taxonomy Term store can be accessed in a SharePoint App, with permission scope of Taxonomy.

To be able to use the JSOM API for Taxonomy you need to reference SP.Taxonomy.js found in _layouts/15/ the best way to reference this would be in the document ready.

Accessing Taxonomy Term Store with JSOM