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- 3How exactly are you proposing to control access to your database if you're not going through an API?Philip Kendall– Philip Kendall2023-09-19 10:46:03 +00:00Commented Sep 19, 2023 at 10:46
- Currently, the Web application (which I inherited) has queries in the code, used with EF.Pine Code– Pine Code2023-09-19 10:47:26 +00:00Commented Sep 19, 2023 at 10:47
- That's not access control.Philip Kendall– Philip Kendall2023-09-19 10:48:38 +00:00Commented Sep 19, 2023 at 10:48
- 1@guillaume31: If it is server-side rendered, then how does the server access the database without using an API?Jörg W Mittag– Jörg W Mittag2023-09-19 13:10:51 +00:00Commented Sep 19, 2023 at 13:10
- 1"but having one to just access databases seems overkill to me" it isn't. For you see, APIs are about policy, and databases only give you very coarse-grained ways to control and implement policy. I'm struggling to think of a non-trivial CRUD app I've built in the last 10 years we're e.g. postgres' access controls were sufficient to the task. Not to mention the security risk of having not hard-coded queries run against your db....Jared Smith– Jared Smith2023-09-19 14:39:09 +00:00Commented Sep 19, 2023 at 14:39
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