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

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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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