Client-side API requests

[oliviertassinari]

Summary 💡

Currently, all the requests are run server-side, however, there are cases where you would prefer them to run client-side. I have found one case: https://docs.github.com/en/rest/search#rate-limit. Instead of providing a key, you can not provide any, and have each client's IP set the rate limit rather than the server's IP.

I don't really need this now, but I thought it could be interesting to track the interest from the community.

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Motivation 🔦

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[Janpot]

This could be interesting for the demo mode, we won't have the DDOS attack vector

[oliviertassinari]

I have found a new use case for client-side queries: firewalls.

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/52076581/wordpress-ajax-call-response-with-well-known-captcha

[oliviertassinari]

I'm reopening as I believe this support was removed. I'm facing challenges with GitHub API rate limiting. #2616 would help though.

[oscni]

👍+1 for this request.

Already exist many no-code/low-code server side tools but what is harder to find is a tool for designing via a webservice that is repo connected in the backend. Deployment should then be with a SSG to a site and when doing so all the API calls would need to come directly from the client.

[YohanSciubukgian]

Does this feature will allow the MUI Toolpad to generate ReactJS App that are exclusively client-side rendered ?

[Janpot]

@YohanSciubukgian This feature would allow for Toolpad apps that can run without a server API. i.e. it could technically be statically hosted. Currently Toolpad doesn't generate code. Looking at your comment, I'm wondering whether that is a feature you're interested in. If so, please upvote the feature request.

[oscni]

Is it working now to do client side API requests? And do we then no longer need any server and instead can deploy the application to an SSG site? Seems like the issue is "recently completed" in the roadmap.

[YohanSciubukgian]

@YohanSciubukgian This feature would allow for Toolpad apps that can run without a server API. i.e. it could technically be statically hosted. Currently Toolpad doesn't generate code. Looking at your comment, I'm wondering whether that is a feature you're interested in. If so, please upvote the feature request.

@Janpot This is exactly what I was looking for, being able to have React code generated by the Toolpad with capabilities to have my own client API calls to bind my business rules to the react code generated. Thanks for the suggestion.