Web Development

More and more apps are being created with an API support. Growing popularity of Angular.js and Backbone.js makes it even more important part of new projects. Why is that? There is a trend to seperate backend from frontend not only in terms of logic but also to split the project into two seperate ones - pure API backend and client-side-only frontend. What’s all the fuss about?

A couple months ago, after signing a contract to build an unusual e-commerce site, we were forced to make a choice. We’d build the site either from scratch or on top of existing solutions. After a few days of getting our heads around the topic, we decided to take on the latter option. Since we cherish Ruby, we chose the most popular Ruby based e-commerce engine: Spree.