Peculiarities between SPA and traditional web development
Let's now review some important points of employing the MVC/ MVVM pattern, to build web applications, instead of traditional web applications.
One of the important points is that the MVC pattern can be applied on the server side or client side. For example, we can use the MVC pattern that runs on the server using some JavaScript library as Express and build a SPA only on the server (in this case, Node.js). This is because MVC is a software architecture pattern and can be applied on both sides, frontend with MVC frontend frameworks and on server-side frameworks such as Ruby on Rails and .NET.
On SPA, everything happens on just one page; as mentioned before, there's no refresh on page request, ...
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