If you are thinking about creating your own web applications, then you have to choose from the two main design patterns: Multi-Page Application(MPA) and Single-Page Application(SPA).

In this article, we will go through what is a Multi-Page Application(MPA), its advantages, disadvantages, and frameworks used to develop an MPA.

A Multi-Page Application(MPA) is a web application that consists of a larger number of pages and is refreshed completely each time the user requests a new page or reloads the current page.

When compared to a Single-Page Application(SPA), Multi-Page Applications(MPA) are easier to develop.

Due to its advantages, MPA technology is used in the majority of web applications rather than SPA technology.

These advantages include the following.

Firstly, The main advantage of Multi-Page Applications(MPA) is its straightforward approach to Search Engine Optimization(SEO).

By including meta tags on every page, you may optimize each page for search engines.

The main goal of a blogger is to rank high on the Search Engine Results Page(SERP).

Single-Page Applications do not perform well with SEO as they do not really change their URL for each request.

But with an MPA, you can optimize each page/post for search engines.

This could help your website or blog to rank higher on SERP.

So, if you are a blogger or need your website to be optimized for search engines, an MPA is most likely the best option.

Developing a web application is not an easy task.

But developing an MPA is much easier than SPA as only a small stack of technologies is required to develop an MPA.

As MPA needs to fetch pages from the server for each request, it takes some time to load the web page.

But a slow website can drive users away from your site and into the welcoming wallets of smiling competitors.

The user may get distracted if the website takes too long to respond.

As MPA loads pages from the server each time the user requests a new page, the user has to wait for a few seconds for the website to load completely.

This could result in a poor user experience.

In an MPA, both the front-end and back-end are highly coupled.

The codes for both ends could not be kept separately.

The tools and frameworks for the development of MPA can be divided into two groups: Back-end and Front-end

First, we will go through the Back-end frameworks.

The back-end tools and frameworks consist of the operating system, web server, database, and programming logic.

Here are some commonly used tools and frameworks for the back-end of an MPA

The front-end or client-side tools/frameworks enable the user’s interaction with the web application.

These front-end tools and frameworks include the following