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Full-Stack Web Development with Vue.js and Node

You're reading from   Full-Stack Web Development with Vue.js and Node Build scalable and powerful web apps with modern web stack: MongoDB, Vue, Node.js, and Express

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Product type Paperback
Published in May 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788831147
Length 366 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Aneeta Sharma Aneeta Sharma
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Preface 1. Introducing MEVN FREE CHAPTER 2. Building an Express Application 3. Introducing MongoDB 4. Introducing REST APIs 5. Building the Real Application 6. Building Authentication with passport.js 7. Building OAuth Strategies with passport.js 8. Introducing Vuex 9. Testing an MEVN Application 10. Going Live 11. Other Books You May Enjoy

An introduction to SPAs

Contrary to the traditional MPAs, SPAs are designed specifically for web-based applications. The SPA fetches all the data when you first load the website in the browser. Once all the data is fetched, you don't need to fetch any more data. When any other interactions are done, that data is fetched over the internet, without having to send a request to the server and without reloading the page. This means that SPAs are much faster than the traditional MPAs. However, since SPAs fetch everything at once on the first load, the first page load time could be slow. Some applications that have SPA integration are Gmail, Facebook, GitHub, Trello, and so on. SPAs are all about making the user experience better by putting the content on one single page and not making the users wait for the information they want.

The following is a sample diagram of how SPAs work...

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