Chapter 3: Build a JavaScript Single Page App Without a Framework
by Michael Wanyoike
Front-end frameworks are great. They abstract away much of the complexity of building a single-page application (SPA) and help you organize your code in an intelligible manner as your project grows.
However, there’s a flip side: these frameworks come with a degree of overhead and can introduce complexity of their own.
That’s why, in this tutorial, we’re going to learn how to build an SPA from scratch, without using a client-side JavaScript framework. This will help you evaluate what these frameworks actually do for you and at what point it makes sense to use one. It will also give you an understanding of the pieces that make up a typical SPA and how they’re ...
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