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The API Churn/Security Trade-Off (2016)


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TLDR: Heavy client-side logic requires a trade off between API churn or an increasingly complex security model So, if you want to avoid this API Churn vs. Security complexity trade off entirely, there is a great way to do it: move things back to the server side. But even if you aren’t buying what I’m selling (for free, because I love you), fine: you still should realize that you are going to need to think very hard every time you increase the expressiveness you make available to your client-side developers.

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