Don’t Build a General Purpose API to Power Your Own Front End (2021)

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  • dom-examples

    Code examples that accompany various MDN DOM and Web API documentation pages

    • By"bells and whistles" you mean the Web APIs? https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API

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  • shot-scraper

    A command-line utility for taking automated screenshots of websites

    • This is exactly what the `Accept` HTTP header is for https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Headers/Ac...

    I think the author is generally correct that all JSON should be provided in a single request, but if you want to prove it, then you should be able to change your accept header to and from `application/json`/`text/html seeing nearly identical data.

    In fact, this is what both GitLab and Github do. Try it out!

    `curl -L https://github.com/simonw/shot-scraper` (text/html)

    `curl --header "Accept: application/json" -L https://github.com/simonw/shot-scraper` (application/json)

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