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There are some. Mastodon has a lot of garbagey nonsense, but they do at least have a proper API which will let you make a non-shit front end if you wanted.
That's not what I mean. Lemmy has two separate repositories: one for the backend, and one for the default frontend. New frontends can be written and straight-up hooked into the server's backend instead of making all those API calls. For example, see https://photon.lemmy.dbzer0.com/ vs https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/.
photon doesn't directly communicate with the backend, it's not intended for that. but even then, lemmy-ui is almost entirely client side (for some reason) and it makes its calls to the API
Well, Lemmy's front end talks to it's back end via an API, which is pretty much how every web app of any scale works these days.
There's really not any particular difference between a monolithic app vs a seperate front end in terms of "all those API calls" since everything is basically calling APIs at this point, if they're not made by complete incompetents. (In the case of Mastodon, though, I suppose complete incompetent is possible.)
Oh, I didn't realize that.