[L] Single Page Application (SPA)

An overview of the concept of SPA application and related techniques to build SPA and non-spa applications using HTML, CSS and JavaScript.

Showing some Web API, with code samples, that can be used when developing SPA applications.

Lecture covering topics like:

• SPA as an application architecture
• Pros and cons
• Related techniques to build webapps
• HTML API, useful for SPA
  • Online/Offline
  • WebSockets
  • Server-sent events
  • Web workers

Resources

Resources that are used, or are relevant, for the areas that the lecture covers.

About SPA.

• Wikipedia: Single-page application
  • Isomorphic JavaScript
• MDN Glossary: SPA (Single-page application)
  • MDN: Understanding client-side JavaScript frameworks

An overview of the many Web APIs.

• Web APIs

More types of application architecture related to SPA.

• Electron
• Apache Cordova
• Progressive Web Apps