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whatnow3737305/03/20251 replyview on HN

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.


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throwaway778305/03/2025

Exactly. And state is in two places now. It's like building two applications and trying to somehow keep them in sync.