alt Hacker NewsI have repeated this elsewhere. APIs for UI tend to diverge from APIs in general in practice.
For applications that are not highly interactive, you don't quite need a lot of tooling on the BE, and since need to have a BE anyway, a lot of standard tooling is already in there.
React style SPAs are useful in some cases, but most apps can live with HTMX style "SPA"s
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qudat • yesterday at 1:02 PM
> APIs for UI tend to diverge from APIs in general in practice.
I'm arguing to just use a single API, not creating one for UI, at least when you want things to be simple for multiple clients.
recursivedoubts • last Saturday at 10:41 PM
Agreed. We started with one API to rule them all. What happened? Now we got two.. and now we have to communicate like this:
“So the backend gave this weird …”
“What backend?”
“The backend for the frontend…”
“So not the backend for the backend for the frontend?”
I jest, but only very slightly.