How the API-First Ecosystem Made Us All Full-Stack
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Argues that frontend devs can act full‑stack by wiring APIs, not learning every backend discipline: builds a product list that uses the fetch API to call a serverless function, pulls data from Hasura as the database, uses a Cloudflare-style HTML Rewriter for server-side DOM updates, stores per‑user scores in cookies, and implements a two‑feature sorting algorithm. The result is a personalized, adaptive UI that works with JavaScript disabled and deploys via a simple CLI.
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chapters (10)
- 0:00Introduction and welcome
- 1:04Full stack developers don't exist
- 2:47Front-end development boundaries
- 4:53Serverless functions and APIs
- 6:59Building a database with UI
- 8:44Custom API with database integration
- 10:28Personalized UI with cookies
- 12:32Demo of adaptive UI
- 14:15API-first ecosystem superpower
- 15:39Call to action and conclusion
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