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Re:Advice to Young Web Developers by Scarbutt on Friday June 19, 2020 @03:12AM (#23571887)
an API is an abstraction. you can do away with that if you generate html in the backend

You can still and should have an API but it will be an internal one(in-process, not at the network boundary).

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Re:Advice to Young Web Developers by arkis22 on Friday June 19, 2020 @03:19AM (#23571930)
An API is not an abstraction. It is LITERALLY how your program is communicated with. The API of a website is http.

The code inside the API is an abstraction.

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