November 2017
Intermediate to advanced
420 pages
10h 29m
English
Content preview from RESTful Java Web Services - Third Edition
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RESTFul API role in single-page applications
In a traditional web application, the client requests a URI and the requested page is displayed in the browser. Subsequent to that, if the user wants to submit a form then the submitted form data is sent to the server and the response is displayed by reloading the whole page as follows:
Unlike traditional web applications, the overhead of refreshing the page is reduced by single-page applications leveraging a REST API to load the page data as follows: