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I'm building SPA application using Backbone.js and as its back-end I want to use ASP.NET Web API. I need only one page and this fact brings me a lot of confusion. ApiController returns json response and as far as I understand there's no need in asp.net-specific views at all. Am I right?

Can I use plain html for my main page? Or should I use *.cshtml and put a call to RenderBody instead?

If choose the first option then how will I handle validation?

Thanks!

lexeme
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Well the trick is that if you want search engines to be able to index your page, or people to be able to share to Facebook with a custom icon/description, etc you'll need to serve back static HTML -- none of those bots are able to run your javascript to render the page as the browser does.

If you're uninterested in this, then yes, you can completely avoid RenderBody.

tkone
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