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  • Thank you for the insight! One clarification: if I don't need to "go further" is it still valuable to send back the entire object as the response? Otherwise, I would need to maintain 2 locations where I create the object; backend and frontend. Commented Mar 9, 2019 at 0:22
  • I don't think so or I can't imagine your case. Assume that you create a thing and you don't need to go further. So, you can turn your things list page and let user do what he/she wants. If he/she want to see object details, then you can request to the server to get object details. Why are you storing object on front-end if you don't need to use it(no need to going further) Commented Mar 9, 2019 at 0:32
  • Ah! "don't need to go further" as in I don't necessarily need the information from the response. This may be bad practice on my part, but I'm generating Id on the front end, and sending that to the backend, so I wouldn't need that info from the response. The thing is then shown to the user, so I would need to store it on the front-end as well. Essentially, this case I would need to create the thing in 2 places if I don't get the thing from the response! Commented Mar 9, 2019 at 0:55
  • I'm generating Id on the front end is not bad practice. It is dangerous. How do you manage each object has different Id? Commented Mar 9, 2019 at 9:32
  • My _id_s are UUIDs randomly generated and are thus highly probable to be unique. They are sent to the backend. Sure someone could make a non-client API call with a conflicting UUID, but the backend will return a non-200 status code. I could definitely be naive, but thoughts on why that could be dangerous? Commented Mar 9, 2019 at 9:54