The API Evolution
summary
Covers a concrete claim that RPC-style APIs are back and explains why — tied to Prisma’s developer experience and a 2020 shift — with live code demos and tradeoffs between RPC, REST, GraphQL and React Server Components. Shows actual tools and snippets: Prisma, trpc, Blitz.js, fets, OpenAPI, explains how build-time transforms keep server code out of the bundle and how type safety is preserved in TypeScript. Useful if wanting runnable examples and implementation details rather than high-level rhetoric.
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chapters (17)
- 0:00Introduction
- 1:13Speaker overview
- 3:44Fashion and API parallels
- 6:131980s: RPC and early services
- 8:401990s: CORBA and language-agnostic APIs
- 9:45Late 1990s: SOAP and XML APIs
- 11:292000s: REST and resources
- 13:37GraphQL and flexible fetching
- 15:232020s: RPC revival and tools
- 18:15Blitz.js RPC demo
- 20:23tRPC and type-safe communication
- 23:56React Server Components and DB access
- 26:25REST APIs with type safety
- 27:07Fets: fully typed REST clients
- 30:40Summary: choosing API approach
- 31:46Future trends and AI APIs
- 32:29Q&A
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