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Last active November 3, 2022 09:02
Next-gen Node HTTP APIs

I saw this poll on Twitter earlier and was surprised at the result, which at the time of writing overwhelmingly favours option 1:

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I've always been of the opinion that the (req, res, next) => {} API is the worst of all possible worlds, so one of two things is happening:

  • I'm an idiot with bad opinions (very possibly!)
  • People like familiarity