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Stringly Typed
Discover "stringly typed" development—where strings replace proper types in API calls and data exchanges.
Unsurprisingly, most API calls are "stringly typed" because request and response bodies are often stringified JSON data. And because most APIs speak JSON, the possible types are limited to strings, numbers, objects, arrays, booleans and null anyway. After building all these SPAs connecting to APIs being maintained by different teams, I've never considered it to be a huge problem, but now that I have a name for this pattern, "stringly typed" interfaces started to bother me.
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