Backend for Frontend Pattern

[mfcollins3]

Regarding the Separating client apps document, I'm tending to find myself leaning towards giving the client app developers control over their immediate APIs and having them build it out using the Backend for Frontend pattern. This would simplify the implementation as local mocks aren't needed and the API backend service can be run locally or deployed into the cloud environment and used. Initially it could return mock data until the behind the scenes services are built out to satisfy the APIs. By making the backend API the responsibility of the client developers, they can define the API to meet their application needs while also using it to communicate to the backend developers what they need. But it provides a better point of integration between the frontend and backend developers, in my opinion.