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Re:Don’t Build a General Purpose API to Power Your Own Front... by CharlieDigital on Sunday August 20, 2023 @11:20AM (#37199983)
That's what the database is, isn't it? The separation layer between the raw data and how it's projected into some interface (user or otherwise).
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Re:Don’t Build a General Purpose API to Power Your Own Front... by aatd86 on Sunday August 20, 2023 @01:35PM (#37201252)
Yes in a way. There are a bit more layers in-between.

In fact, you can see it as 2 decoupled kinds of database:

- the storage database

- the working in-memory UI database that holds the data represented (e.g. on your screen (GUI)).

The goal in general is to modify the data contained in this UI database and then to push the changes to storage.

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