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What does is offer significantly more than the browser built-in IndexedDB?

by bonn1 12y ago

coolbloke1324 12y ago
It includes views, triggers / change events, transforms, collection joins and data binding. Also this allows you to spend more time on interacting with data than worrying about what browser supports what storage. It is also useful even for apps that have no use for storage because looping over JS objects for specific matches in a number of areas of an app will get dirty pretty quickly.
- bonn1 12y ago
  I thought all browsers support IndexedDB? However, I think it would be helpful to communicate this as a wrapper around IndexedDB instead of positioning it as another new DB.
  - coolbloke1324 12y ago
    It's really not a wrapper around indexeddb at all. It doesn't even communicate with indexeddb except to save and load data for storage and that is optional. The main use here is for allowing web app developers to be able to load a dataset from a server and then query it dynamically on the client-side, as well as display that data automatically via data-binding.
    - bonn1 12y ago
      But at the end you have to store it somehow and thus you employ the underlying browser DBs for that (like IndexedDB or WebSQL) => wrapper
      - coolbloke1324 12y ago
        But that is the point... you don't have to store it in an underlying browser db. It runs as an in-memory store if you don't use an underlying engine. The persistence module is an optional extra and doesn't even need to be included in the library.
        bonn1 12y ago
        > The persistence module is an optional extra But a DB offers usually persistency and you called your product ForerunnerDB I still think that the communication/positioning/branding of ForerunnerDB could be improved since it's misleading.
  - nolanl 12y ago
    Unfortunately, support is still not great: http://caniuse.com/#feat=indexeddb http://caniuse.com/#feat=indexeddb Those yellows are really more yellow than green, in my experience. :/

What does is offer significantly more than the browser built-in IndexedDB?

by bonn1 12y ago

What does is offer significantly more than the browser built-in IndexedDB?

It includes views, triggers / change events, transforms, collection joins and data binding. Also this allows you to spend more time on interacting with data than worrying about what browser supports what storage. It is also useful even for apps that have no use for storage because looping over JS objects for specific matches in a number of areas of an app will get dirty pretty quickly.

bonn1 12y ago
I thought all browsers support IndexedDB? However, I think it would be helpful to communicate this as a wrapper around IndexedDB instead of positioning it as another new DB.
- coolbloke1324 12y ago
  It's really not a wrapper around indexeddb at all. It doesn't even communicate with indexeddb except to save and load data for storage and that is optional. The main use here is for allowing web app developers to be able to load a dataset from a server and then query it dynamically on the client-side, as well as display that data automatically via data-binding.
  - bonn1 12y ago
    But at the end you have to store it somehow and thus you employ the underlying browser DBs for that (like IndexedDB or WebSQL) => wrapper
    - coolbloke1324 12y ago
      But that is the point... you don't have to store it in an underlying browser db. It runs as an in-memory store if you don't use an underlying engine. The persistence module is an optional extra and doesn't even need to be included in the library.
      - bonn1 12y ago
        > The persistence module is an optional extra But a DB offers usually persistency and you called your product ForerunnerDB I still think that the communication/positioning/branding of ForerunnerDB could be improved since it's misleading.
- nolanl 12y ago
  Unfortunately, support is still not great: http://caniuse.com/#feat=indexeddb http://caniuse.com/#feat=indexeddb Those yellows are really more yellow than green, in my experience. :/