didn't down-vote you but perhaps you mean tech which holds nearly all client state on the server like JSF or webforms and I think that may be not so clear to so

didn't down-vote you but perhaps you mean tech which holds nearly all client state on the server like JSF or webforms and I think that may be not so clear to some :) for front-end frameworks, not storing the state on the URL usually means storing it on the memory or sessionstorage and server is usually not involved