of the work done so far has focused on building microservices, and making them interact with each other. It is time to bring everything together by creating the tip of the iceberg--the User Interface (UI) through which our end users use the whole system with a browser.
Modern web applications rely a lot on client-side JavaScript (JS). Some JS frameworks go all the way to provide a full Model-View-Controller (MVC) system, which runs in the browser and manipulates the Document Object Model (DOM), which is the structured representation of the web page that's rendered in your browser.
The web development paradigm has shifted from rendering everything on the server side, to rendering everything on the client side with data collected from the server on demand. The reason is that modern web applications ;change portions of a loaded web page dynamically ;instead of calling the server for a full rendering. It is faster, requires less network bandwidth, and offers...