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Re:Don’t Build a General Purpose API to Power Your Own Front... by tylercrompton on Sunday August 20, 2023 @10:59AM (#37199801)
Something about injecting HTML from an API, even from a controlled server, feels wrong.
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Re:Don’t Build a General Purpose API to Power Your Own Front... by prmph on Sunday August 20, 2023 @11:10AM (#37199899)
But that’s the point: its not an API, it’s just an app web server.

There’s nothing wrong with a web server serving HTML; that’s their whole purpose.

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