{
  "id": 11019427,
  "title": "Agree on your hackathon API before frontend and backend split",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/30/agree-on-your-hackathon-api-before-frontend-and-backend-split",
  "topic": "tech",
  "section": "Tech",
  "published": "2026-09-30T20:02:48.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Dev.to",
    "slug": "dev-to",
    "url": "https://dev.to/stavleak-hackathons/agree-on-your-hackathon-api-before-frontend-and-backend-split-304c"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "Your frontend expects tasks . Your backend returns items . Both branches run, but the first integrated screen is empty. Agree on one response shape before the team starts working separately, then test the first real request while there is still time to change it. An API contract is a shared description of a request and its response. For a small hackathon prototype, it can start as a short…",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
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  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
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  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}