I think few reasons that made me go with this new (for me, at the time) approach were: - Backend/API that can be consumed by anything, are frontend-agnostic -

I think few reasons that made me go with this new (for me, at the time) approach were: - Backend/API that can be consumed by anything, are frontend-agnostic - Frontend that depends on JSON/source-agnostic data so that can have functionality tested faster (no "proper"/"dynamic" backend involved, just give it some ApiBlueprint/swagger mock server - The frontend rendering isn't a concern of the backend removing some load