# Is it possible to use genexus solely as backend? is that the case.. how it could be done?

I really struggle with genexus front-end. It would be great if an external front-end such as react could be used instead.

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- Posted at: about 5 years ago
- Author title: Software Engineer
- Net upvotes: 1


## Comments
### Comment 1

Yes, it's entirely possible to use GeneXus as a pure backend. You can expose your business logic and data through REST APIs generated automatically by GeneXus, and then connect any frontend — whether React, Angular, or a mobile app — to those endpoints. Simply define your transactions and procedures, expose them as REST services, and handle the frontend independently. It's a great approach if your team prefers a specific frontend framework while still leveraging GeneXus's powerful backend and database automation.

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- Posted at: 4 months ago
- Author title: CTO en MAIA Inteligencia Artificial 



### Comment 2

Basically, you can develop data and service layers and use REST services to comunicate with UI. I've done sample applications against Android and web interface frameworks and it seems to do the job perfectly

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- Posted at: almost 5 years ago
- Author title: Consultant, Analyst



### Comment 3

Yes, you can use GeneXus for the Backend and create the Frontend in another technology.

The simplest way is by creating services that work like an API.
That in GX is pretty straightforward, exposing procs, or BC or Data Providers as webservices, with the technology you need.

The API object was created precisely to solve these types of scenarios:  
https://wiki.genexus.com/commwiki/servlet/wiki?46151,Category%3AAPI+object

With this object you can create a "layer" that is generated with the API, which would be the backend that the frontend that you use (React, Angular or whatever) is going to consume.

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- Posted at: about 5 years ago
- Author title: Sales & Digital Marketing




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