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This project looks very useful. Since you compare it to Django and mention it has batteries included i have a few questions I'd like to ask. Does it include an

by livre 6y ago

This project looks very useful. Since you compare it to Django and mention it has batteries included i have a few questions I'd like to ask. Does it include an autogenerated admin page like Django? Does it handle database migrations? You mention both Vue and React in your page, does that mean I have to install either of them manually or does the cli handle that? What are the limitations of the query builder? I can't test anything right now and the docs page looks a bit bad on my phone. Also the examples page is broken and returns an error.

zaiste 6y ago
Thanks for the kind words! 1. I'm working on the admin panel, but it's not yet ready. I'm still hesitating how to approach the persistence layer without introducing too many abstractions. Generally speaking, I'd like to avoid ORMs as much as possible. :) 2. I use the node-pg-migrate [1] for migrations at the moment, but I plan to tightly integrate with Postgraphile / Hasura to give another approach for that part. 3. You need to add them manually, but the architecture is pretty close to Vite [2]. You have just one Node process for both front-end & back-end: in development I compile assets on the fly using ESBuild [4], in production I bundle them using Rollup. I should probably describe that in the docs more clearly :) In contrast to Vite, Kretes also provide a REST API out-of-the-box, and a relatively simple path for adding a GraphQL endpoint. 4. The current query builder - sqorn [5] - has a nice syntax as it uses the same vocabulary as SQL, but it's not typed. My goal is to create a fully typed TypeScript query builder that's adapted only for PostgreSQL. Here's the preliminary work for that [3] 5. I'm still working on the docs. I'll fix the things you mentioned right away. [1]: https://github.com/salsita/node-pg-migrate https://github.com/salsita/node-pg-migrate [2]: https://github.com/vitejs/vite https://github.com/vitejs/vite [3]: https://github.com/typeofweb/functional-orm https://github.com/typeofweb/functional-orm [4]: https://github.com/evanw/esbuild https://github.com/evanw/esbuild [5]: https://sqorn.org/docs/about.html https://sqorn.org/docs/about.html
- livre 6y ago
  Thank you for the very informed reply. I think your project has a great future if you keep working on it. A fully typed query builder sounds amazing, the weakly typed one of Django bit me once back when I was getting started with it.

by livre 6y ago

zaiste 6y ago

Thanks for the kind words! 1. I'm working on the admin panel, but it's not yet ready. I'm still hesitating how to approach the persistence layer without introducing too many abstractions. Generally speaking, I'd like to avoid ORMs as much as possible. :) 2. I use the node-pg-migrate [1] for migrations at the moment, but I plan to tightly integrate with Postgraphile / Hasura to give another approach for that part. 3. You need to add them manually, but the architecture is pretty close to Vite [2]. You have just one Node process for both front-end & back-end: in development I compile assets on the fly using ESBuild [4], in production I bundle them using Rollup. I should probably describe that in the docs more clearly :) In contrast to Vite, Kretes also provide a REST API out-of-the-box, and a relatively simple path for adding a GraphQL endpoint. 4. The current query builder - sqorn [5] - has a nice syntax as it uses the same vocabulary as SQL, but it's not typed. My goal is to create a fully typed TypeScript query builder that's adapted only for PostgreSQL. Here's the preliminary work for that [3] 5. I'm still working on the docs. I'll fix the things you mentioned right away. [1]: https://github.com/salsita/node-pg-migrate https://github.com/salsita/node-pg-migrate [2]: https://github.com/vitejs/vite https://github.com/vitejs/vite [3]: https://github.com/typeofweb/functional-orm https://github.com/typeofweb/functional-orm [4]: https://github.com/evanw/esbuild https://github.com/evanw/esbuild [5]: https://sqorn.org/docs/about.html https://sqorn.org/docs/about.html

livre 6y ago
Thank you for the very informed reply. I think your project has a great future if you keep working on it. A fully typed query builder sounds amazing, the weakly typed one of Django bit me once back when I was getting started with it.