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Is the frontend or backend (API) responsible for formatting data in a specific locale?
In our company we had a discussion whether formatting data in a certain locale is the responsibility of the frontend application or of the API that provides data to it. Which of the following ...
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0answers
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Angular integration with back-end
We're developing a big project for our company, and they asked us to use Angular even though none of the devs have any considerable experience with it. The back-end is C#/.NET Core with ABP. My ...
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2answers
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Hardcoding on frontend
I have an API which returns a list of articles. An article can have three status: Approved, Pending and Rejected. Now the front-end needs to hit the API in following scenarios: Get all the articles ...
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25votes
3answers
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Is it normal design to completely decouple backend and frontend web applications and allow them to communicate with (JSON) REST API?
I am creating new business web application and I want to achieve: Use the best technologies from their respective realms. I want reliable backend framework with solid ORM. And I want the most advanced ...
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0votes
3answers
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Should REST APIs contain the ability to dispatch email?
When building a service that uses both a back-end REST API, and (a) front-end application(s), is it proper to build into that API the ability to dispatch email? Take Twitter for example; for those ...
