Backend for frontend
When software shifted from desktop and web-based applications to mobile applications, distributed architectures became much more prevalent. It became a focus for many organizations to build a platform instead of just a product. This approach places a much larger emphasis on APIs that a product can expose to clients as well as third-party partners. As APIs became a given for any web-based application, it became popular to try to build client applications (mobile or JavaScript) on the same API used to provide functionality to the third-party partners. The idea is that if you exposed one well-designed, general-purpose API, you would have everything you need to build any kind of application. The general architecture looked ...
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