[AskJS] What's a good option for building a backend with minimal glue code for the frontend?

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  • swagger-typescript-api

    TypeScript API generator via Swagger scheme

    • If your backend is able to generate Swagger/OpenAPI JSON, you can use https://github.com/acacode/swagger-typescript-api to generate both TypeScript interfaces and an API client from the Swagger JSON.

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  • axios

    Promise based HTTP client for the browser and node.js

    • I think you are just describing axios https://www.npmjs.com/package/axios https://www.npmjs.com/package/axios#custom-instance-defaults I do something like that with a network folder, and just export all of my calls, as API_whatever(params, payload)

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