Understanding the Fundamentals

Many modern web applications are now built as client-rendered Single-Page Applications (SPAs) rather than traditional server-rendered multipage applications. An SPA is a web application that only contains a single physical HTML page. This single page then uses JavaScript within a web browser to dynamically rewrite parts of the HTML, usually based on JSON data that's retrieved from API calls to the server. By doing so, after the initial page load, the application has no need to request full HTML pages from the server, which helps make it as fast and responsive as a native desktop application.

When it comes to building SPAs in 2018, we are absolutely spoiled for choice in frameworks and technologies that we could ...

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