bad-apis.md

Utilities for bad APIs

Goals:

• Write resolvers that allow you to do "complex" queries in one pop, such as fetching the entire definition of an object
• "Push" updates so that the slowest endpoint doesn't hold up the entire request

// Create a fetcher. Fetches some data 
const fetchBook = createFetcher(
  // The fetcher
  (movieId) => {
    return fetch(`/books/${movieId}`);
  },
  // The transformer
  (result) => result.book)
);

// Actually do the fetch
fetchBook('1042');

// okay, how about when you need to fetch the book for an author?

end-api.js

// Fetch an author

// I think this would require a model definition which is stupid and I hate it
fetchAuthor(authorId, {
  attributes: [
    'name',
    'books',
    'comments'
  ]
});