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Re:We replaced our React front end with Go and WebAssembly by moron4hire on Monday February 10, 2025 @11:36PM (#43009020)
I disagree. I don't think it's too much to ask of software developers to be the bare minimum of competent enough to wire up a basic web service in whatever language they are dealing. REST is not complex.
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Re:We replaced our React front end with Go and WebAssembly by onion2k on Tuesday February 11, 2025 @12:02AM (#43009160)
REST is not complex.

REST isn't complex, but API design is still hard. Making a strategic choice not to design a service API but to ship the same code in two places is valid, and arguably the right one if that's what the teams skills lend themselves to.

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Re:We replaced our React front end with Go and WebAssembly by baq on Tuesday February 11, 2025 @01:17AM (#43009581)
Over the past two decades I’ve seen a well implemented RESTful API exactly once, in a relatively small project. The rest of REST apis are ad-hoc RPC over HTTP, I’d argue because it isn’t complex and complexity moves to the client.
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