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By Guest posted 4th Aug 2024, 11:50 AM

If doing this it would probably also make sense to have some kind of precaching of resources commonly-used on the front end. This could be learned automatically, i.e. resources used by over X% of users should be auto-cached in the background. Templates, images, etc. Probably based on available bandwidth, i.e. don't do over a cellular connection.

By Guest posted 4th Aug 2024, 4:08 PM

I should put in a reference to GraphQL, which is now very popular for APIs. I think we should focus on simple JSON though. If someone then wanted to make that more performant with GraphQL that could be added on in parallel. GraphQL has a lot of complexity and presents caching challenges, so it's not something we should go for unless we identified a need for it.