Don’t Build A General Purpose API To Power Your Own Front End

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Update 2025-12-11 : There is now a follow up article (4 years later) . TL;DR YAGNI , unless you’re working in a big company with federated front-ends or GraphQL. It’s popular in web dev nowadays to build a backend that serves JSON , and a frontend that renders the app. This is fine. I’m not the biggest fan, but it’s really okay. Except it’s not okay if you think that your backend needs to be…

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