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SE Radio 576: Jens Neuse on Back Ends for Front Ends

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Building a BFF Framework for Your APIs

In 2012, SoundCloud came up with the term back end for front end. It's essentially a layer on top of your API layer that simplifies cross-cutting concerns like authentication and API composition. And then you don't have to handle that in the front end code. So it's kind of like a, I know you could say maybe a shim, but it's actually, I think it's a bit more than just that.

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