Javascript

Single page apps make a lot of sense for customer-centric applications that handle a lot of user data. SPAs are often tied to a RESTful API for a good reason: when your data makes sense, your experience makes sense. We just rebuilt our console – an Angularjs-based Single Page App – and spent a lot of time modeling out the REST API (the actual data model/structures).

With the user model mapped out, it’s much easier to build a UI for your API because the common things like list views, search boxes, sorting, etc – they just fall in place alongside your data model. Fronting a REST API with a single page app gives the assurance of sane data and the freedom to make your UI look and feel sexy. #winning

We need Analytics to improve our app. However, most analytics (Like Google Analytics) aren’t yet fully prepared for Single Page Apps (SPA). Google Analytics tracks page views once your browser refreshes the page, which in old pages meant changing the URL. Now, with AngularJS, we never refresh the page. We have a complete WebApp which changes URLs, changes resources, but never does a refresh. So, the question is how can we track page views and events now?