Talking to Front end developers through an API

Talking to Front end developers through an API

By Richard Still (‎Oakbox‎)
Date: Saturday, 7 July 2018 16:40
Duration: 20 minutes
Target audience: Intermediate
Language: English
Tags: api development web

Problem: They don't speak Perl, my Javascript and visual design skills are sub-par. How can we work together quickly and efficiently to refactor a large codebase?
Solution: An API! We developed a framework that allows requests to be batched into JSON calls. Right now, the scripts are called through the CGI interface but this can quite easily be shifted over to a faster Plack implementation once we get through the heavy lifting phase of development.
The only places where we (the front end developers and myself) overlap are in Template::Toolkit (which is very easy to understand) and the API itself. This methodology has proven to be very resilient and allowed us to move forward quickly.