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by torben-friis
1776 days ago
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>Baaackkk iiin myyy dayyyyy APIs were not nearly as common as they are now. This is due to the explosion in the popularity of Single Page Applications (SPAs). 10 years ago, web applications tended to follow a pattern where most of the application was generated on the server-side before being presented to the user. I know it's nitpicking and not the point of the article, but I don't think that's true. APIs have become commonplace because of the rise of mobile apps, that need one to talk to the back end. SPAs are in turn a response to the universality of APIs, because single page apps let you handle the browser as one more of those N clients, and avoid maintaining dofferent points of entrance to your backend. I bring this point up because people seem to hate SPAs (usually for good reasons) and it's important to realize the problem they're solving. Better handling of complex client side logic and the like, which are usually pointed at as the main benefits of SPAs, are usually just an afterthought by companies, since the percentage of SPAs that reach a level of complexity where that's an issue is relatively quite low. |
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