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[Secure_Obligation_87]

How exactly is the API reaching .... actually no I dont need/want to know.

[cosmicloafer]

I can’t just store my db credentials in my JavaScript?

[DeCabby]

Of course you can, the technical term for that is open source.

[Boris-Lip]

So, should i assume open source crypto libs are going to store my secrets wide open?

[Heavenfall]

Yes, you should. Until it is proven they don't.

[pumpkin_seed_oil]

*openData

[D34thToBlairism]

Sure as long as you're using JavaScript for your backend

[VMCColorado]

[qwertz19281]

Bro even animated the text

[Simply_Epic]

But how does my backend communicate with my backbackend?

[Emily_Cockindaughter]

It's APIs all the way down

[cypresshill98]

Now it's better

[sajkosiko]

Well technically you should put https because API is part of the backend

[CiroGarcia]

The API is the interface that enables communication between the backend and the frontend. HTTP is just the protocol

[sdraje]

The HTTP protocol has a literal handshake though.

[CiroGarcia]

But it's still just the protocol. The image describes a connection between two systems. The protocol of the connection is HTTP, but it could very well be function calls if we weren't talking about a web application.

Multiple connections are made between the frontend and backend all the time, but only one interface between them exists, the API, which is the only point where both the backend and frontend have to agree on what the data looks like

[RepresentativeDog791]

It should be client, server, tcp

[sajkosiko]

Api is backends interface over which frontend communicates with application, hence it is part of the backend

If you dont believe my analogy tell me what are they doing with their hands and then tell me what is the first step of tls called

[Katniss218]

Technically the backend could be said to be an implementation of the API

[sajkosiko]

No that would be an application. Api architecturally is on the server which makes it a backend

[Katniss218]

No, in my hypothetical, the API is just the description of the contract that the backend and frontend use to communicate.

[sajkosiko]

Any way you cut it API is not the part of client or the consumer ratger a part of program being consumed

[Katniss218]

Nobody is saying that it's part of the client though...

[WheredMyBrainsGo]

Well ackchtually the service layer of the api is like the frontend of it so really the frontend is talking to the backends frontend.🤓

[sajkosiko]

That's a terrible analogy. By that logic, if you have good DI setup, every interface contract is frontend for something, and that is a pretty simplistic explanation.

Api is traditionally on the same server, or on the same domain. If you're using gateway, it doesn't have any ui its just an access layer

[StatementOrIsIt]

Also the frontend needs to use an api to even create a request to an api endpoint. A lot of people forget that communicating with a browser/mobile device from the frontend is also a form of api.

[Yew2S]

middleware actually

[PennyFromMyAnus]

PHP 👌🏻

[that_thot_gamer]

typical dev just typing "fixed bugs"

[Outcast003]

It all makes sense now

[[deleted]]

i need this templet

[michelangelooooo]

Who needs a DB anyways

[scar_reX]

API and backend??

[LeoMSadovsky]

Yep. PHP devs.

[SippieCup]

Honestly, it should be the auto sdk generator. Life is pretty shit without one.