Back-end - Front-End Versioning
This article is part of a larger series that I am writing on App Store Deployment, but this is not limited to App Store Deployment. Versioning between other front-ends and public APIs have similar issues so the problem is not unique to store deployment. This article is oriented toward any situation where the back-end may go out of sync with the front-end for different reasons. API design patterns are also changing and generally shifting toward looser coupling between client and server. The general trend is for front-end apps to become increasingly decoupled from their back-end counterparts. There are several reasons for this. I’m not going to go in to the nitty gritty of the difficulties in getting apps in to the Google Play, Apple, and Microsoft stores. Suffice it to say, it can be difficult, and time consuming. A submission...
Christian Findlay
Mar 23, 2019
