What are the best practices to create a single page app?

Question

What are the most important things not to forget or consider when creating a single page app(completely ajax depended) in general? Or any specific consideration on MVC?

Answer 1

DURANDAL Startkit is a good way to start. Its has MVVM pattern and we can use it with Visual Studio.

Also, Stephen Walther make a good post about security issues. http://stephenwalther.com/archive/2013/03/05/security-issues-with-single-page-apps

Answer 2

Steven Sanderson has a good series of blog posts on single page apps:

• Layout Basics
• Animated transitions
• Navigation and history

I would also recommend his Knockout framework.

Answer 3

For complex projects consider js library - Backbone http://documentcloud.github.com/backbone/

Answer 4

We are using ExtJs for that.

ExtJs get all required data from MVC Controllers via JSON.