Don’t Build a General Purpose API to Power Your Own Front End (2021)

Re:Don’t Build a General Purpose API to Power Your Own Front... by TeMPOraL on Sunday August 20, 2023 @11:55AM (#37200323)

I think it's the difference between generations of people for whom JS was an extra thing to enrich HTML documents, vs. younger generations that see HTML as merely a rendering target for JS.

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Re:Don’t Build a General Purpose API to Power Your Own Front... by thwarted on Tuesday August 22, 2023 @11:46AM (#37224434)

And we got here by having javascript as an embedded scripting language in things like access control management. "I'm already using javascript on the server in my polkit config!"

https://www.freedesktop.org/software/polkit/docs/latest/polk...

https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/use-of-javascript-rules-in-po...

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