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Re:Don’t Build a General Purpose API to Power Your Own Front... by sarchertech on Sunday August 20, 2023 @01:35PM (#37201241)
Most of the time time BFF just means that instead of having the frontend call endpoints A, B, and C. It calls a single endpoint D, which calls A, B, and C and handles aggregating and transforming the data into the specific form the frontend needs.
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Re:Don’t Build a General Purpose API to Power Your Own Front... by hot_gril on Wednesday August 23, 2023 @07:21PM (#37243222)
Eh, I just call that "good design" under most circumstances.
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