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Open Solutions vs Closed Solutions

Open Solutions vs Closed Solutions

How to avoid falling into the trap of making every client app a bespoke or custom affair

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Mike Amundsen
Jun 21, 2023
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NOTE: This is an excerpt from my 2017 book "RESTful Web Clients" published by O'Reilly Media. 

One way you can get beyond writing a bespoke application for each and every problem is to rethink how you design the client itself. Most web client applications are crafted and tailored to solve a single problem or a small set of closely related problems. These…

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