CHAPTER 4
SPA Concepts and Architecture
In Chapter 1 we discussed the main events that led to today’s JavaScript single-page application (SPA) development. We also introduced the main building blocks of SPAs and talked a little about them. In this chapter we will drill down into these building blocks and explain them in more detail. You will get to know the difference between MVC (Model/View/Controller) and MVVM (Model/View/ViewModel), the main communication tools that you use in SPAs, the main HTML5 features that are useful in SPAs, and a little about representational state transfer (REST). Later on we will discuss SPA architecture considerations, ...
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