Appendix C. Single-page application architecture

In chapter 4, we discussed how to create a single-page application (SPA) with Angular and then talked about accessing the Order Processing microservice from the SPA. SPA is already a popular architectural pattern for building applications against a set of APIs. In fact, the rise of API adoption had a great influence in moving developers to build SPAs. In this appendix, we discuss the basic principles behind the SPA architecture. If you are interested in learning the SPA architecture in depth, we recommend SPA Design and Architecture (Manning, 2015) by Emmit A. Scott, Jr.

C.1 What is single-page application architecture?

A single-page application (SPA) is an architectural pattern used to develop ...

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