Hypermedia overview

We have come very far. We can do authentication. We have an admin. We can actually showcase properly rendered articles to users. They are responsive. So much of this feels like a modern application. But we are still doing what is known as full page reloads. We don't have any front end interactivity. We are missing some of the features or components that you will expect from a modern application.

So in this module, I want to give you an introduction to what is modern hypermedia? What is the difference between the typical SBA or single page application approach? What are the options? And then finally, we're going to be applying one of those options to our blog to make it feel more snappy, more modern, to give some better visual feedback, but also showcase some of the

the functionality we can actually build with these tools without having to go down the, in my opinion, overly complicated path of SPH, because SPH are single-based applications that only have their place in modern web development, but they are far too overly, they're overly used as what I'm trying to say. People default to SPH when they should probably be defaulting to modern hypermedia because it is simpler and

you don't gain much or probably anything from most applications out there by utilizing, by going with a single-page application when you can just utilize these modern tools. So what you instead get is more complexity. You have a lot of dependencies you need to keep updated. We've also seen a lot of development or involvement in the single-page application space. So that's also

always something you need to be up to date on or you have to change your data fetching library or your state management library, right? All of this can be taken away by just adopting and approaching modern hypermedia with these tools we are gonna talk about and you're gonna get a much more simple and much more maintainable and much more scalable application to work with that

that doesn't limit you in what you can do. So let's go over a single-pace application and tools out there and then apply it into our project.