Last Updated: 2024-11-23

I had to build a multi-page 3-step wizard for a reverse auction. Each step only gathered like 2 bits of info. This necessitated 6 controller actions (for the GETs and POSTs) and much complication.

In general, I feel client-side software (e.g. React) is slower to build, however this is a case where React would have been faster and better engineering than a backend-heavy approach.

With React:

• I would have a single POST endpoint (and single GET one)
• The data would came all at once (rater than it steps). This creates another advantage compared to dribs and drags of data: data integrity checks in the SQL datastore. Now we can expect ALL fields to be given, and therefore be no need for so many nullables.