Nov. 27, 2023, 5:06 p.m. | Jesse Warden

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Ruminations on the 2 extreme positions of “You build the UI” vs’ “You build the UI and the API back-end for front-end”.


UI Project where I write my API’s



  • Pros: Fast UI, single Ajax request usually to show screen(s), easy to digest code to that loads data.

  • Cons: Fine grained, but many API endpoints, more custom SQL wrapped with services, and pressure from UI/API dev (me) to change database structure.


UI Project where I’m “Just the UI Guy”



  • Pros: API …

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