Preface
Created in 1995 by Brendan Eich of Netscape, JavaScript has gone from being a toy scripting language used only in browsers to being one of the most popular languages in the world for full-stack development. With the introduction of Node.js, built on top of Chrome’s V8 JavaScript Engine, developers are now able to build powerful and performant applications using JavaScript. With the addition of MongoDB, a modern NoSQL database, applications can utilize JavaScript at every tier.
Many popular web applications are implemented, partially or in whole, as single-page applications, or SPAs. With SPAs, users load a single web page, and that page is updated dynamically in response to user interaction or incoming server data. The advantage is an application ...
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