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Websites are clients, too (engineering.foursquare.com)

63 points by msingleton ↗ HN
The site redesign and recently launched website features like the homepage map, lists, and notifications, have brought them closer together. With these features we’ve begun consuming our own public APIs, via JavaScript, directly from the website.

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eugenejen
Glad I am not the only one who exploits similar solution to solve problem for mobile/ajax on server side!

One question here is for generating search engine friendly web pages without javascript, do you guys use server side requests internally to api to get data?

o1iver
This has been discussed so many times now! It's not news! In a world where content is consumed on different devices with different "views" I think this is a necessity.