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Single page application. A website where the first request loads the site, and most/all subsequent clicks make http requests in the background without reloading the whole page, and then update the content using JavaScript.

If you have Javascript disabled, all you should see is a blank white screen, and if you're lucky a small note saying 'This site requires Javascript to work correctly'. That's what a SPA is

React Server Side rendering takes care of this... but most people don't know how to do it.

Without JS, Server Side JS defaults to good old school MVC.

When you are adding a new framework to render your single page app on a server, that's the point to stop and re-evaulate your technical decisions IMHO.

Single Page App. Simply: the application is loaded once when you navigate to the page and more ajax calls are used to retrieve data, perform actions as you use the app.

Thanks guys.

I had actually never seen that written solely as SPA even though I've worked as a react dev for 2 years now in Canada. I guess the acronym really is going obsolete.

Single-Page-Application

IE. Purely JS driven, no browser-page loads after the initial page has loaded.

Single-page application

Remember those horrible Flash apps? THEY’RE BACK.