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

Software Engineering Radio - the podcast for professional software developers

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The Difference Between Building an Application and Building a Library

A lot of people simply start writing or adding the API integration layer into that API route directory. They are moving this logic from the client to the server. And it's kind of like the same level of complexity. What's a bit better is we now have a security boundary between client and server. We are potentially closer to the APIs that we're integrating with so we can eliminate some latency. But if you look at the core problems that we need to solve, you will see that a framework like Next.js and others are no different. Like you can create an API endpoint, kind of like a REST API thing. And that's what you get from the framework. And the rest is

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