In today's post we'll be building a Single Page Application using only vanilla JavaScript - this means we don't need to use any frameworks!
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Basically if you remove the javascript code and get the html fragment from the server using the "get html" function then everything still works.
Progressive enhancement at its best.
This is a proof that you don't need a front end framework to build an spa that can track states through the Url using the history API. No state on client side therefore no need for a "setState all the things".
Great post, rare to see such quality around the Web these days.
Why? They are still coupled but now with a weak layer between them with a home-made protocol to interpret the response body. Views should still be sent from the back-end systems unless your business logic is in your front-end code and back-end has no business logic. If that's the case you have a service that returns data, and that's called a database. If that's the case then well... use a database query language not HTTP.
HTTP is for hypertext/hypermedia state transfer, use the tools for what they're optimised for, don't try to repurpose them to something that makes absolutely no sense.
is that a node.js function? cant find any reference to it after a couple google hits
It's a reference to the code examples in the original post. There's a custom "getHtml()" function there.
Thanks for sharing!
I enjoyed going through the repo. I forked it and updated how the routes are handled so it works on GH Pages π
github.com/MichaelCurrin/single-pa...
Also I added instructions for serving as a static site without Express.
Dear author, why you didn't use the hash part of the URL with the hashchange event to navigate around the app?
I've checked around 5 similar articles and all of them are recommending to use hash. It's much simpler and convenient.
It might be simpler, but it's a different thing. It depends on your preference based on your use case.
I'm interested in this. Do you have some links you can share?
Just a side note: Express is itself, a framework.
I don't mean this as an inflammatory statement, just for those that may not know.
Express is more of a dev dependency here for local dev convenience and can be swapped out for other approaches, including VS Code Live Server or Python builtin HTTP server.
Or http-server for NPM which can be installed globally and run in the project root.
BTW In production you would use Nginx to serve your static assets (HTML and JS). Or upload them to GitHub Pages and let that serve it for you. No NPM server needed.
Using Express in production is suitable if you want to build an API or maybe do frontend templating (like Python Flask does). That you can make your content dynamic like with get data from a database. Instagram is a single application which does something like this.
True - more accurately I probably should have mentioned "front-end" framework
Hi I am new with the javascript node etc. and I have a big problem :( How can I add script event to following HTML page
async getHtml() {
return
<h1>Welcome back, Dom</h1>
<p>Hi there, this is your Dashboard.</p>
<p>
<a href="/posts" data-link>View recent posts</a>.
</p>
}
I am trying to create forms in each page and I have to add script events in order to collect data and display current time on some forms etc. Thanks :)
Did you ever have any luck adding handles for the html in the views? Im trying to add event listeners to some input box I have in the html but have had no luck retrieving user input
Dear dom,
Thank you for your great article. I'm looking for a proper way to get totally ride of any server side framework. Imagine a project you cannot install anything in server. There is only an API to provide content.
Is there a way, to simply route to html pages and call some js to fill them ( statics, content .. ) ? What will be "bad" to do like this ?
Best regards, Wil
Sombody might find this useful for a frame-workless SPA. Please note I wrote it.
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Single Page App without frameworks, but you're using React which is a framework. I also wouldn't call it vanilaa javascript either, but that's just me
React is not a framework, but it is a library.
In this article, I don't see React.
I hate people saying "React is not a framework. It's a library".
Yes, officially it's true. But what do other frameworks offer that React doesn't?
Hello Drew,
Can you point me where you see React stuff in it ?
I had a problem using this pattern, which I still don't know how to solve.
While a page is loading and a user clicks on some link to go to another page, the next page starts to be assembled with the requests that were still happening on the previous page and creates a page with the mixed content.
How to do simple state management with this approach?
Thanks for sharing.
How do I deploy the static website together with the node on firebase or github pages?
How do I write JS for each route and then inject it to the app when the route is loaded?
If I click on Posts, then I want to load a JS script file (click Handler). How I make it?
github.com/Graidenix/vanilla-router is a simple router for self-made SPA
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