The API Churn/Security Trade-Off (2016)

Aaaayyyy yooo, i wrote this a long time ago, but I think it holds up!

TLDR: there is a trade off in how much expressive power you can surface to front-end developers when their logic is written in-browser because anything you give to them, you give to anyone who can open up a console. That makes things a lot more dangerous and is in contrast w/ the back end, where you can give developers access to a full SQL implementation.