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by vaughan 6y ago
I feel like we are still waiting for someone to create a nice multi-paradigm database blending everything we’ve learned in the past 50 years, that can also run in the browser. I see all state as a stream of events building a graph, then we
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by vaughan 6y ago
I think SQL on the frontend is a big opportunity. It’s a powerful declarative language that matches nicely to React. Every component’s data requirements are essentially an SQL query, and a lot of client-state could probably be represented i
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by vaughan 6y ago
Flow + OCaml is a great example of this approach failing IMHO. I ran into tons of issues that were difficult to debug myself, and things like the regex format and config file conventions being different were also problematic. Compile times
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by vaughan 6y ago
They also criticized it for poor "developer aesthetics". [1] > We were resolved that using strings representing SQL commands lacked the elegance of a “web native” JavaScript API, and started looking at alternatives. > In ano
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by vaughan 6y ago
We are collectively off in the wilderness at the moment. Apollo GraphQL is the same company that brought us Meteor by the way. If you take a look at what you need to write to get good optimistic UI updates it is crazy compared to what Meteo
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by vaughan 6y ago
This is the same as a removed member still having their browser cache containing team data. The advantage of this design is you get an app that is extremely responsive and offline capable. Then you just need a reliable way to sync changes.
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by vaughan 6y ago
But what about optimistic UI updates or offline support in the client. The frontend has no notion of the relationships between the entities, which means you will be making a lot more queries than you need to, or just ignoring optimistic upd
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by vaughan 6y ago
> You've just turned your database schema into the API It might actually be quite easy to version an SQL api, because you have the DDL migrations files and could actually make things backwards compatible to some degree. You would ha
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by vaughan 6y ago
> you can statically extract the SQL/GraphQL Yeh, that's the best idea. A babel plugin could do it easily. I already have have watcher script calling `graphql-codegen` to add types to my graphql queries, which works fine in the
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by vaughan 6y ago
This doesn't help with optimistic UI updates though. The article is less about remotely executing SQL, but more about having a relational data model as a cache in the frontend. However, when sending the query through to the backend on
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by vaughan 6y ago
Looks cool - wonder why its not more popular. I think the read/write-through cache to a backend database is the missing piece...at least as far as I can see.
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by vaughan 6y ago
Doesn't appear it was deprecated for the usage that I propose. https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/2202... >Byte-level storage Would be cool. --- https://hacks.mozilla.org/20
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by vaughan 6y ago
Yep, but not just for data journalism.
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Don’t we all just want to use SQL on the front end?(vjpr.medium.com)
148 points by vaughan 6y ago|179 comments
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by vaughan 6y ago
Yeh, subtrees can get hairy. I think there is a need for a cli wrapper tool (with nice visualization) to hand-hold through the process. Too much can go wrong otherwise.
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by vaughan 6y ago
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/16134975/how-can-i-reduc... I think it's just inefficiently implemented. `git subtree` is just a shell script using other git commands. Take a look at the `--rejoin` flag.
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by vaughan 6y ago
Yep, subtrees are the answer. I wrote [this piece]( https://vjpr.medium.com/the-multi-monorepo-209041932fbf ) yesterday about using a monorepo of monorepos using git subtree over git submodules, which should cover almost all
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The Multi-Monorepo(vjpr.medium.com)
2 points by vaughan 6y ago|0 comments
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by vaughan 6y ago
How was your experience with react-data-grid? I've heard it can be painful to work with sometimes?
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Ask HN: Is there a markup language for video editing
2 points by vaughan 6y ago|2 comments
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by vaughan 6y ago
The downside of submodules is you lose the ability to easily branch across all packages/repos and then just commit. You could branch the other project but then you have to coordinate this yourself. There is a project called Meta that c
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by vaughan 6y ago
Thanks for the insight. Good to know I'm not alone. It feels orders of magnitude easier to make the internal repo the source of truth when developing and a huge sacrifice to productivity to split something out. If there was a good solu
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by vaughan 6y ago
Thanks, hadn't heard of this one. Looks a bit heavy though for my liking but maybe they have some good ideas. > Copybara requires you to choose one of the repositories to be the authoritative repository Looks like it is more angled
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by vaughan 6y ago
The goal is to allow development to happen on the OSS side. Unless you are a Google or Facebook with the ability to properly resource OSS, the 1st approach just leads to abandoned projects. > this obviously takes more work managing the n
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by vaughan 6y ago
> why does the package you want to split out need to remain part of the monorepo It becomes more difficult to maintain and you lose the advantages of a monorepo (atomic commits/branching, etc.) Submodules doesn't work well with
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What is the best and right way to open-source packages from a company monorepo?
46 points by vaughan 6y ago|24 comments
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Ask HN: What tools do you use to do code reviews?
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by vaughan 7y ago
I've been minimalist running daily for 5+ years now. I've never been injured that prevented me from running. Only thing that stopped me once was sprained ankle from landing badly on rough track and the flu. It took about 6 months
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by vaughan 9y ago
I recommend Asana. It is simple when you get started, but can also grow with you as your project increases in complexity with numerous task organization options. Useful features: - Browse tasks with keyboard like a text file. - Tasks can be
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by vaughan 9y ago
I use IntelliJ/WebStorm. I open a Google Drive folder which contains a markdown file for each day.

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