Frameworkless Front-End Development: Do You Control Your Dependencies or are They Controlling You?

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7. Routing

Francesco Strazzullo¹  

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TREVISO, Treviso, Italy

 

The last chapter discussed AJAX and how it changed web development forever. Another essential technique that drastically changed how users interact with web applications are Single Page Applications (SPAs).

In this chapter, you will learn what an SPA is and how to build one of the core features of SPAs: a client-side routing system.

Single Page Applications

A single page application (SPA), as its name implies, is a web application that runs inside a single HTML page. When the user navigates from one view ...