SPA (Single-page application)

An SPA (Single-page application) is a web app implementation that loads only a single web document, and then updates the body content of that single document via JavaScript APIs such as Fetch when different content is to be shown.

This therefore allows users to use websites without loading whole new pages from the server, which can result in performance gains and a more dynamic experience, with some tradeoff disadvantages such as SEO, more effort required to maintain state, implement navigation, and do meaningful performance monitoring.

See also

• Single-page application (Wikipedia)
• Understanding client-side JavaScript frameworks
• Related glossary terms:
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• Popular SPA frameworks:
  • React
  • Angular
  • Vue.JS