Design API

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Seonglae ChoSeonglae Cho
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2023 Jul 17 15:37
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Flexibility over time determines where design concepts should live. What changes frequently belongs in the data, while the schema of the data should fix the standard of what never changes. Code changes more easily than schema but less easily than data. UI is easy to change but not as easy as data.
Code should be standardized through interfaces, and
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separation is important for extension. What's important at the code level is to prevent it from being too easy to extend. Make the architecture not easy to create a similar function that does the same thing. This enables command query separation, and separating mutation and query files is also a good practice.
 
 
 
 
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