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by bramblerose 1026 days ago
An organisation that separates frontend and backend teams will naturally converge to an architecture where the collaboration between frontend and backend is minimized (i.e., a generic REST API) -- Conway's law.

This doesn't mean that an actual cross-functional team that contains both frontend and backend developers can't use the proposed single-purpose API to run circles around the split team.
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another-dave 1026 days ago
Regardless of cross-functional teams, I think having to make changes at an API level at the backend for UI changes will negate a lot of the benefit.

For clarity, I don't think you need to treat your own front-end like an external consumer & think it's fine to have bespoke endpoints as needed.

What I'm skeptical of is the author's suggestion that a backend endpoint brings back presentational info like "leftBoxTitle".

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