In modern web applications, it’s a common pattern to serve the web API and the frontend app from different subdomains: https://api.example.com: your web API, usually serving JSON documents https://example.com: your web application, usually built in JavaScript, generating HTML documents from the raw JSON data retrieved from the API This was the pattern implemented by API…
Tag: Vulcain
Vulcain: HTTP/2 Server Push and the rise of client-driven REST APIs
Watch a longer video (English)!Watch a French version. Over the years, several formats have been created to fix performance bottlenecks of web APIs: the n+1 problem, over fetching, under fetching… The current hipster solution for these problems is to replace the conceptual model of HTTP (resource-oriented), by the one of GraphQL. It’s a smart network…