Best practices querying APIs via cloud functions

Elias Butting — Wed, 22 Jan 2020 12:33:38 +0000

Im currently working on a little side project where I want to query an api via cloud functions.

The API has several endpoints, say "Users" and "Posts".

Do I create one function for each endpoint? ie:


getUser(id) => Userdata
getPost(id) => Postdata

OR do I create one single function that chooses the endpoint via a given paramenter:


getApiData("user", id) => Userdata
getApiData("post", id) => Postdata

Are there any best practices? What are the pros and cons? How do you do it?

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