Don’t build a general purpose API to power your own front end (2021)
I don&#x27;t know when we started splitting people into &quot;frontend&quot; and &quot;backend&quot; teams (FAANG influence?) and for what reasons, but 10 years ago we hired people with a general background, smart and curious enough to learn SQL, HTML&#x2F;CSS&#x2F;JS and whatever language you want to use on the server, able to build some end-to-end CRUD features on their own. And that&#x27;s like what 99% of the companies need.<p>My point being: when you have the same person building the UI and the API, you avoid a lot of the problems described in this article.