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Next.js Quick Start Guide
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Next.js Quick Start Guide

by Kirill Konshin
July 2018
Intermediate to advanced
164 pages
3h 15m
English
Packt Publishing
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What is a single-page app?

A single-page app implements this architecture for web clients: the JavaScript app launches from a web page and then runs entirely in the browser. All visual changes on the website happen as a reaction to user actions and the data received from the remote APIs.

It is called single-page because the server does not render pages for the client; it always delivers the same minimalistic markup required to bootstrap the JS app. All page rendering and navigation happens purely on the client, using JavaScript, which utilizes History APIs to dynamically swap page contents and URLs in the location bar.

The advantages that this approach gives are that the client can run something in the background between page transitions, ...

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