As merely a systems engineer sometimes having to create a Web app I really much appreciate the experience of building a well-separated app without layers of trivial but flaky boilerplate layers that is a REST API in a dynamic language. The Next app I built last year using heavily RSC is one of the most legible and easy-to-maintain apps I have created so far.
We'll see if the magic can be trusted on or if we need more explicit solutions to this, but the Next/RSC experience was vastly superior compared to writing another REST API that is never to be used with anything else than the accompanied React app, and I'd love to use it or something similar to it in the future.
The reason is probably that a REST API for a "BFF" is in many cases quite tightly coupled with the frontend, and trying to detach those in the system architecture does not separate them in some higher scheme of things. Even if the two parts could separated but would never end up used without another, the separation probably just makes an unnecessary barrier.
I mean the different aspects of my Next app are now clearly separated, but they do form functional units. The separation between frontend and BFF is gone, but that was a wrong boundary in small scale apps to begin with.
We'll see if the magic can be trusted on or if we need more explicit solutions to this, but the Next/RSC experience was vastly superior compared to writing another REST API that is never to be used with anything else than the accompanied React app, and I'd love to use it or something similar to it in the future.
The reason is probably that a REST API for a "BFF" is in many cases quite tightly coupled with the frontend, and trying to detach those in the system architecture does not separate them in some higher scheme of things. Even if the two parts could separated but would never end up used without another, the separation probably just makes an unnecessary barrier.