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Nicely done! I did a similar thing with the VueJS/horizon.io combo. It's a little rough around the edges - I just wanted to have some sort of scaffold for per

Nicely done! I did a similar thing with the VueJS/horizon.io combo. It's a little rough around the edges - I just wanted to have some sort of scaffold for personal stuff. Link is https://github.com/kylestlb/vuex-horizon-scaffold https://github.com/kylestlb/vuex-horizon-scaffold for anyone interested. And yes, there are tons of devDependencies so I wouldn't call mine minimal I suppose :)

mercer 10y ago
Awesome! I've been using horizon.io in combination with React (and Redux, because I'm all hip and stuff!) for 'scratch-my-own-itch' projects and on the whole I've been very happy with the process. While there are some obvious limitations to using Horizon, it's incredibly convenient for quickly getting something working that 1) is online, public-facing, but secure (OAuth), and 2) provides a CRUD back-end very quickly with little work. I've run into a bug or two so far, and the documentation isn't entirely up to snuff, but I can highly recommend Horizon for some use cases. Specifically, Horizon is great out-of-the-box if you're creating an app where there's authenticated users who can do pretty much anything to entities owned by themselves, and where a client-side interface suffices. A todo app, or journalling app would be a typical example: the user can do whatever he pleases with his own todos/journal-entries, provided that he's authenticated. Any greater complexity server-side probably needs an Express app (or Hapi, Koa, etc.), but there's really quite a lot you can do with a 'vanilla' Horizon server.
- kylestlb 10y ago
  Agreed, and I think a good solution is to build specific services that do the complex things which talk to the same db, and then just use horizon for the reasons you mentioned.
- yazr 10y ago
  Is there any source/sample you can share ? I am starting on a big SPA project. react+horizon+rethinkdb seem ideal for the read-only parts, but i worried about how to integrate some business logic which will require relational transactions on the backend
  - kylestlb 10y ago
    I think in that case you can just build a separate express API that talks to the same rethinkdb instance, no? After all, horizon is basically just a front-end driver that wraps rethinkdb changefeeds.
    - mercer 10y ago
      Yup. It should be pretty easy to set up an Express server that uses Horizon for some of the simpler stuff, and your own routes/logic for more complicated work.
      - yazr 10y ago
        Thanks both.
WalterSear 10y ago
Nice. Yes, this is the scaffolding for my personal stuff, branched off and with a README :) Got to check out your stuff - I've heard about vue.js but am not very familiar.

mercer 10y ago

Awesome! I've been using horizon.io in combination with React (and Redux, because I'm all hip and stuff!) for 'scratch-my-own-itch' projects and on the whole I've been very happy with the process. While there are some obvious limitations to using Horizon, it's incredibly convenient for quickly getting something working that 1) is online, public-facing, but secure (OAuth), and 2) provides a CRUD back-end very quickly with little work. I've run into a bug or two so far, and the documentation isn't entirely up to snuff, but I can highly recommend Horizon for some use cases. Specifically, Horizon is great out-of-the-box if you're creating an app where there's authenticated users who can do pretty much anything to entities owned by themselves, and where a client-side interface suffices. A todo app, or journalling app would be a typical example: the user can do whatever he pleases with his own todos/journal-entries, provided that he's authenticated. Any greater complexity server-side probably needs an Express app (or Hapi, Koa, etc.), but there's really quite a lot you can do with a 'vanilla' Horizon server.

kylestlb 10y ago
Agreed, and I think a good solution is to build specific services that do the complex things which talk to the same db, and then just use horizon for the reasons you mentioned.
yazr 10y ago
Is there any source/sample you can share ? I am starting on a big SPA project. react+horizon+rethinkdb seem ideal for the read-only parts, but i worried about how to integrate some business logic which will require relational transactions on the backend
- kylestlb 10y ago
  I think in that case you can just build a separate express API that talks to the same rethinkdb instance, no? After all, horizon is basically just a front-end driver that wraps rethinkdb changefeeds.
  - mercer 10y ago
    Yup. It should be pretty easy to set up an Express server that uses Horizon for some of the simpler stuff, and your own routes/logic for more complicated work.
    - yazr 10y ago
      Thanks both.

WalterSear 10y ago

Nice. Yes, this is the scaffolding for my personal stuff, branched off and with a README :) Got to check out your stuff - I've heard about vue.js but am not very familiar.