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by pmontra 3467 days ago
That API backend is often a Node, Python, RoR webapp. JSON output instead of HTML doesn't make much difference, only the views/templates (pick your framework's name) are different. The other code is the same.

But in some cases a SPA let's you go to a different route to Parse or Firebase backends, or Lambda/Functions. That's different.