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Re:The quiet, pervasive devaluation of front end by nerdix on Friday March 08, 2024 @10:44AM (#39642109)
This is also known as BFF (Backend For Frontend). Every client gets it's own API tailored for it's use case that will mostly just aggregate/orchestrate calls to the general purpose API.

https://samnewman.io/patterns/architectural/bff/

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Re:The quiet, pervasive devaluation of front end by DanielHB on Friday March 08, 2024 @08:23PM (#39648517)
Some companies take this even further with a BFF for web, another for Android and another for iOS
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Re:The quiet, pervasive devaluation of front end by cqqxo4zV46cp on Friday March 08, 2024 @09:14PM (#39648842)
I’d still put that in the same bucket really. It’s implicitly “a back end for a front end”
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