Part 6 of the Angular in Production series
One of the biggest surprises I had working on larger Angular application is that many frontend bugs aren't actually frontend bugs. The component works. The service works. The HTTP request succeeds. Angular isn't throwing any errors. Yet something still feels broken. Maybe a table suddenly shows empty values. A form refuses to submit. A button disappears because a condition no longer evaluates the way it used to. Most of the time, Angular isn't the problem. The frontend and the API have simply stopped speaking the same language.
Everything Starts With a Simple Response
Most integrations begin with a response that's easy to consume. Something like this:
{
