Demo Front-End: A front-end application to test and explore an API

Many software teams create services exposed as APIs, designed to be consumed by other software and thus without any user-interface. Such services are hard to demonstrate, as they effectively just dump pages of JSON. A demo front-end is a simple user-interface just used to manipulate such an API. Matteo Vaccari describes how and why to build one - showing its usefulness both in explaining the API's capabilities to stakeholders and to help client developers explore how to interact with the API.

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https://martinfowler.com/articles/demo-front-end.html

Created 1y | Aug 23, 2023, 4:10:18 PM


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