API Churn vs. Security: The Perils of Client-Side Heavy Logic

This article explores the problems stemming from the current trend of heavy client-side logic in web applications, namely API churn. While solutions like GraphQL offer more expressive APIs, mitigating the resulting security risks – where increased client-side power empowers malicious users – becomes incredibly complex. The author argues that moving logic back to the server side is the best approach to avoid this trade-off between API churn and security complexity.