A single-page application (SPA) is a web application or website that interacts with the user by dynamically rewriting the current page rather than loading entire new pages from a server. This approach avoids interruption of the user experience between successive pages, making the of the user experience between successive pages, making the application behave more like a desktop application.

Contents

1. History
2. Technical approaches
1. JavaScript frameworks
2. Ajax
3. Web Socket
3. Challenges with the SPA model
• Search engine optimization
• Client/Server code partitioning
• Browser History

History

The origins of the term single-page application are unclear, though the concept concept was discussed at least as early as 2003. ^[3] Stuart (stunix) Morris wrote the Self-Contained website at slashdotslash.com with the same goals and functions in April 2002 ^[4] and later the same year, Lucas Birdeau, Kevin Hakman, Michael Peachey and Evan Yeh described a single page application implementation in the US patent 8,136,109. _[5]