Chapter 10. Displaying Views
The heart and soul of most SPAs is a dynamic frontend. SPAs move a lot of the heavy lifting, related to display logic, onto the browser. Modern browsers have fast and powerful JavaScript engines that can handle a lot more computation than just a few years ago. In fact, Node.js is built on top of the VB engine, which is a standard part of the Chrome browser.
Most importantly, however, the main idea of an SPA is to give the user an experience approaching that of a desktop application. Complete page loads are a thing of the past, replaced by snappy changes in state.
In this chapter, we will build out the heart of our own SPA. This will be a dashboard where users can build giftlists and share them with other users. We will ...
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