Always define the API first. Figure out the information necessary, and make sure it meets both front-end constraints (e.g. no information is missing, does it need to be one call or multiple calls, etc.) and back-end constraints (can this be efficient to retrieve from the database, does one server have all the info, etc).

Always define the API first. Figure out the information necessary, and make sure it meets both front-end constraints (e.g. no information is missing, does it need to be one call or multiple calls, etc.) and back-end constraints (can this be efficient to retrieve from the database, does one server have all the info, etc).