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How can it operate completely independently if the front end requires data in a format it understands to perform logic on.

• redcobra762 3y ago
  By providing the data in a format that any consumer can understand. JSON, very often.
  • jabradoodle 3y ago
    But your front end is still coupled to the structure of that JSON, which is often fine, but it is coupling
    • redcobra762 3y ago
      “Couples” means two-way. Of course your front end will depend on your backend, the problem arises when they become interdependent; when you can’t develop one without making changes to the other. In this sense a frontend and a backend can be entirely independent, and in every sense the backend should be independent of the frontend.
      • jabradoodle 3y ago
        It isn't entirely independent if a change in your backend can completely break your frontend. Your using coupling as if it is a dirty word that means you've failed.