User types "android" into your search box. That's 7 API calls if you wired it the way I did the first time. A few months later I shipped a pagination bug where every infinite-scroll fetch flashed a full-screen loader for half a second. And then there was the Settings screen that needed to refresh the Dashboard when the user changed theme — but Settings couldn't import Dashboard without a circular
Some time ago, I was building a chat application using AWS Websocket API gateway. Things were going smoothly. I created a WebSocket API Gateway, added $connect, $disconnect, and sendMessage/addGroup routes. From the frontend (React) side, everything was fire-and-forget. You send a message, and the onMessageHandler takes care of it 💪🏼 But then a new requirement of uploading files using S3 signed