Single page applications (SPAs)
Because of this increased performance, developers can now build feature-rich JavaScript applications that run on the browser. Google was the first major company to take advantage of this, when they released the first client-side web application framework—Angular - on 20 October 2010. Since then, many competitors have emerged, including Ember, React, and Vue.js, but Angular still remains relevant today.
Angular is a framework for building SPAs. Instead of delegating the bulk of the processing to the server, the client takes on most of the responsibility.
Let's take an e-commerce web application as an example. In the client-server model, when the server receives a request from the client, it will compose a fully-formed ...
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