chrisnguyn / FE-API

a crappy attempt at making a fe api
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just a notice to myself #3

Open chrisnguyn opened 2 years ago

chrisnguyn commented 2 years ago

scraping is dumb. like, really dumb

it's slow, what if no internet connection, so many repeatedly calls and for what?

data mining - scraping + storing into a DB - doesn't seem that great either. a lot of DB calls + latency + slow in general

static JSON files is prob the way to go (the data never needs to be updated, if it was more dynamic then maybe DB calls is better)

also next time you decide to develop an API, plan it beforehand, because /man/ once you make an API it's hard to revert on it.