# Questions in regards to building a single-page-application **URL:** \ **Category:** How do I?\ **Created:** [March 22, 2023, 12:18am UTC](https://community.weweb.io/t/questions-in-regards-to-building-a-single-page-application/2093 "2023-03-22T00:18:39Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![alan\_x\_n](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e68b1a/32.png) [@alan\_x\_n](https://community.weweb.io/u/alan_x_n)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2023, 12:18am UTC](https://community.weweb.io/t/questions-in-regards-to-building-a-single-page-application/2093/1 "2023-03-22T00:18:39Z")
Hi All, I’m trying to build a single-page-application. From what I’ve gathered from the articles below and other resources. Weweb automatically functions as a single-page app, as long as you essentially set the fixed sections as a instance. For example side bar. However…I’ve been playing around with it and it’s a bit hard for me to tell if it’s functioning that way I want it to. I’m in free-tier mode. So I can only ‘Preview’ and whenever I click on a link on the nav bar for example. To see how the page will load. The entire preview page reloads…Is there a way around that? One other thing that I haven’t reverse engineered or figured out yet is. There’s a template for a ‘Dashboard’ when i create a new workspace. Which I believe is essentially this page. [https://template-dashboard.weweb.io/account/](https://template-dashboard.weweb.io/account/) I’m trying to figure out why the sidebar appears like it’s reloading/resetting on page change between lets say ‘dashboard’ and ‘account’ page. When it appears to be built under the conditions to make it ‘seamlessly’ load. more like a ‘web app’ On the editor, the sidebar is set as a instance I believe and the pages are different. am I misunderstanding something? > **[SPA, Mobile Apps, Stripe, Kanban, Optimization](https://www.weweb.io/changelog/202227-so-many-updates)** > > SPA, PWA, Stripe, Supabase, Kanban, Datagrid, Date manipulation, Number formatting, new CSS settings, productivity features. And more... Here’s an example of what I’m trying to recreate without the whole page reloading. (Made on another no-code site) ![loading](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/uploads/weweb/original/2X/1/1e03eb1a934d69f085d435341dcf850cd62df82c.gif) ---
**Author:** ![avm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ba9def/32.png) [@avm](https://community.weweb.io/u/avm)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2023, 1:44am UTC](https://community.weweb.io/t/questions-in-regards-to-building-a-single-page-application/2093/2 "2023-03-22T01:44:11Z")
I had this question too ---
**Author:** ![chadsmithclt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8797f3/32.png) [@chadsmithclt](https://community.weweb.io/u/chadsmithclt)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2023, 4:33pm UTC](https://community.weweb.io/t/questions-in-regards-to-building-a-single-page-application/2093/3 "2023-03-22T16:33:52Z")
Once you publish the project the sidebar will behave as you’re expecting. WeWeb folks may correct me here, but I believe that in Preview mode each page is considered separate. One way to test this in Preview mode is to make a change to your linked section on one page and then check a separate page where you also have that same linked section and you will see the changes reflected 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![alan\_x\_n](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e68b1a/32.png) [@alan\_x\_n](https://community.weweb.io/u/alan_x_n)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2023, 5:28pm UTC](https://community.weweb.io/t/questions-in-regards-to-building-a-single-page-application/2093/4 "2023-03-22T17:28:45Z")
I see, I guess what I was looking for was to actually test the loading times of each section/page and compare it to some other projects I’m doing. But it seems the only way to do that is to purchase a plan and deploy it.