Single Page Application – The myth, truth and chiefdoms.
Not sure how to start this, but start somehow, I must. If you are a software developer and you have not heard or come across the acronym – SPA – would really be a great surprise to me. This is not a really a full blown treatise about SPA – more of a pocket book definition or to be precise – a one page narration of SPA. So, I will tackle this write up using my preferred MO for presentation – the 5 Ws – What, Why, Where, When and Who . What is SPA – stands for Single Page Application – meaning you only have one SINGLE PAGE or container housing your application. You may want to juxtapose this with another context in order to fully comprehend its full meaning. That will be dealt with in the “Why” definition. Why SPA – the main reason for the emergence of the SPA paradigm is primarily speed or instantaneous response to a user's interactions with controls or widgets on a web page. What does this mean? The traditional way of staging a web application is ...