Episode 107
107: Sam Selikoff - Pushing Complexity to the Client-Side
In this episode, Adam continues his discussion with Sam Selikoff about building single page applications, this time focusing on strategies for keeping your API layer as simple as possible, so all of your complexity lives in your client-side codebase inste
January 30, 201950m 0s
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Show Notes
Topics include:
- Building an API without writing any controller code
- Thinking of your API like a database as much as possible
- Modeling everything on the server as a resource, including things like S3 upload signatures
- Using tools like Firebase to avoid writing an API entirely
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Links:
- EmberMap, Sam's Ember.js training site
- JSON:API, the API spec Sam uses to build his SPA backends
- JSONAPI::Resources, the Rails gem for declaratively building a JSON:API compliant API
- Firebase
- Vuex
- Apollo GraphQL
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