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> *Couldn’t We Just Have One API?* > Yes, we could. Such as we could have a backend rendering

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Chemaclass Tech Lead Spryker Solution Partner Posts: 213 🧑🏻‍🚀 - Cadet

Couldn’t We Just Have One API?
Yes, we could. Such as we could have a backend rendering the HTML and no fancy react.
Similarly, we can keep CSS next to HTML.

https://dev.to/fulopattila122/rest-apis-vs-backend-for-frontend-4hba

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  • U01T075RRHD
    U01T075RRHD Posts: 118 🧑🏻‍🚀 - Cadet

    Nice read, thanks for sharing.
    I don't fully agree on HTML being solely a UI thing, though. For a long time HTML has been consumed by machines (search engine bots) and analyzed for its semantics.

  • U01T075RRHD
    U01T075RRHD Posts: 118 🧑🏻‍🚀 - Cadet
    edited June 2021

    And more recently, with single page applications, we have so called server side rendering to produce HTML for search engine bots because they will not consume the - mostly proprietary - JSON data