API centric app

charlieanna · March 28, 2014, 6:05am

Hi All,
Right now the rails app we have build uses the conventional MVC of the rails structure and we use jquery here n there. We are just using browser for now but would like to build native apps for android, ios and also expose the APIs for other apps.

So what should we change now? Should we start using backbone/Angular for everything and ask the frontend framework to use the APIs exposed by the rails app? How tough is it do make the app only APIs centric and it this approach worth it if we want to build multiple clients later ( even native desktop clients).

arunagw · March 28, 2014, 8:18am

@charlieanna I would say start building API first and do not touch Rails views right now. Once you have API ready then you can decide if you want to switch to BackBone kind of app or not.

API is required when you want to do build other clients later. Changing Rails app views is totally up to requirement.

Topic		Replies	Views
Porting Rails App to Mobile Ruby on Rails	2	1057	June 19, 2013
Understanding API's and how to interact with them help! Ruby on Rails	2	738	June 28, 2014
Ember / Angular / React / whatever, what are you using? Javascript	3	1945	August 15, 2014
Backbone.js on Rails Backbone.js on Rails	4	1497	November 13, 2015
Architect EmberJS for frontend, and Rails API for backend Ruby on Rails	4	3056	March 18, 2015

API centric app

Related Topics