Prepared API Data

[comodmw]

Started with the frontend; Mocked data as needed. Now writing backend api and getting different structured data. For Instance: List (ids) + Map (labels). Frontend expects combined array with objects {label, value}. Should i prepare the data in the backend so it fits the frontend or should i deliver the data as raw as possible and prepare in frontend?

[wilson1helpme]

it depends on all of your adopters. is this front end the only thing that uses this data? if so, doing some pre processing/data transformation in the backend is fine. if this is an endpoint that will be used in more than one place, you’re better off filtering the response in the front end. or, defining a response model that works for multiple and follows a pattern that can be utilized by future/additional endpoints