Before starting, please make sure you understand what google requires, particularly the use of pretty and ugly URLs. Now lets see the implementation: Client Side On the client side you only have a single html page which interacts with the server dynamically via AJAX calls. that’s what SPA is about. All the a tags in … Read more
Let’s look at one of the most popular SPA sites, GMail. 1. SPA is extremely good for very responsive sites: Server-side rendering is not as hard as it used to be with simple techniques like keeping a #hash in the URL, or more recently HTML5 pushState. With this approach the exact state of the web … Read more
(Note: As per Sharky’s feedback, I’ve included code to detect backspaces) So, I’ve seen these questions frequently on SO, and have recently run into the issue of controlling back button functionality myself. After a few days of searching for the best solution for my application (Single-Page with Hash Navigation), I’ve come up with a simple, … Read more
This question has been addressed, in a slightly different form, at length, here: RESTful Authentication But this addresses it from the server-side. Let’s look at this from the client-side. Before we do that, though, there’s an important prelude: Javascript Crypto is Hopeless Matasano’s article on this is famous, but the lessons contained therein are pretty … Read more