107: Sam Selikoff - Pushing Complexity to the Client-Side

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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