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Asked: 2026-05-20T00:24:50+00:00

I have some experience developing websites, but none with proper web applications. But this

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I have some experience developing websites, but none with proper web applications.

But this time I’m creating more of a web application, my server will surely handle API calls from a mobile app (iPhone/Android/MeeGo (…or not)) or even from third party clients.

So I’m thinking, is it really necessary that the “website” –the frontend part of my application using HTML (5)/CSS (3) and JS–interacts with my backend in a different way than my other “frontends”?

Am I thinking wrong? I think this is a common problem, and I need some experimented advices on that. Thank you for your help.

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  1. Editorial Team

    Actually No. You’re thinking it the right way. You can Javascript to interact with your Rest API, so you can focus only on writing a scalable API, and the UI.
    That’s the approach taken by Twitter. Their web site, is a Rails application that uses the twitter API, written mostly in Scala, and uses by the hundreds of twitter clients out there, whether mobile or desktop app.

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