Single Page Applications vs Multiple Page Applications

 In current trends, popular apps use the Single Page Applications as they are more user-friendly, seamless user experience, and reuse of code for creating mobile apps. Examples of SPA are Facebook, Twitter, Gmail, Google Docs, etc.

Business owners are interested to develop a SPA for their business website, but before a web development company, you have to analyze whether a SPA or a traditional multi-page web application Will be better suitable for your business demands.

Types of Web Applications

The origin of the web introduced hypertext documents but these were renewed by sophisticated and feature-rich web apps. Modern web application development can be classified into two methods. They are:

1. Multi-Page Application

2. Single Page Application

What is a Multi-Page Application?

Multi-page applications are the traditional web applications that load the whole page and display the new one while a user interacts with the web app.

Each time data is transferred back and forth, a new page is asked from the server to present in the web browser. This method takes time to produce the pages on the server, sending it to a client and displaying it in the browser may influence the user experience.

Moreover, AJAX invokes/ executes that particular component of the application, but this even more difficult and complex in the development process.

Advantages of Multi-Page Applications

1. Performs well on the search engine.

2. Presents a visual portrayal of the web app to the user.

Shortcomings of Multi-Page Applications

1. Comparatively complex development

2. Coupled backend and frontend

What is a Single Page Application?

 single-page applications just have one single page. SPAs display the content in an easy, concise, and effective way as it arranges all the content on one single page rather than navigating the user to different pages.

SPA s are more agile than traditional web app as they perform the logic in the web browser rather than on the server. Once it loads the page, it only transfers the data back and forth avoiding the transfer of the whole HTML that may affect the bandwidth.

Advantages of Single Page Applications

1. Single Page Apps are stable and fast.

2. Easy to develop and deploy.

3. SPAs are more comfortable to debug.

4. Can be used in mobile apps by reusing the same backend code.

Disadvantages of Single Page Applications

1. SPAs perform badly on the search engine. with isomorphic rendering/server-side rendering, SPAs can be optimized for search engines.

2. Single page applications provide a single sharing link.

3.lack in security when compared to traditional multi-page apps as it is cross-site scripting.

Which one will be suitable for your business demands?

While preferring SPA you have to check whether this approach will be suitable to your business needs, for example, if you have multiple types of products and categories to segregate, it contains graphics that should be displayed then SPA will not be suitable to display the multiple products at a single page. If your business represents a single product then it is better to go with a SPA that will be an amazing way of grabbing the user on the website.

Web apps these days, whether it be SPAs or MPAs are highly advanced, feature-rich, and they provide an amazing user experience. So, to get the maximum out of these two approaches, you must consider the needs of your business and the customer. Here we have discussed the factors to can help you to select between single page application and a traditional multi-page application that would serve the maximum benefit to your business.