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Single Page Application VS Multi Page Applications

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There are a lot of ways to render a webpage and they each have their own advantages and disadvantages. You might have heard of React, a popular framework for designing front-end web applications. But what you may not know, is why it is adopted by many developers. Before React, Multi-Page applications (MPAs) were commonly built using traditional server-side technologies and frameworks like PHP, ASP.NET, Java Servlets, and Ruby on Rails. These technologies allowed developers to create web applications where each page request resulted in a full reload of the entire page from the server. A prime example of such a website is Amazon where you get a page refresh on every link you click. MPAs consist of multiple unique HTML pages, where each interaction triggers a request to the server for a full page reload. While MPAs can offer a satisfactory user experience, they typically involve more page reloads and are more suitable for content-focused websites that don't require complex real-time...