Good thoughts. The article did not say this outright, but it is also nice to build a chunk your app (if not all of it) on top of your own API. Not only is this

Good thoughts. The article did not say this outright, but it is also nice to build a chunk your app (if not all of it) on top of your own API. Not only is this good housekeeping, it helps in decoupling your code and forces you to keep things in bite-sized, maintainable, testable pieces.