Im considering signing up and trying out your service. What is holding me back are all questions I was hoping to have answered on your website. The main questions I have are important implementation details that I think customers a going to care about. What language, framework, dependencies, are handling requests? What is the performance like? How do I scale?
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#12why people here would help them, you're just trying to steal their job.
Because this is a helpful community?
I wouldn't call it stealing, there are hundreds of companies working on reducing development effort from all sorts of angles. Developers need to continually improve their skill sets. It's more about losing your job than having it stolen.
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#13One question I have with a project like this is: suppose I used it, and got traction. What is the story if I then realize that I need to migrate to a more traditional architecture?
Take the code they give you and change it?
They dont give you code. You get an api with a postgres db on Amazon rds that you manage through forms.
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#14add roles in addition to groups.
these are different logical segmentations that are nearly always conflated together in most "quick crud" systems, and never map to reality on things much more complex than "todo list" API stuff. Or, perhaps more specifically, in anything that might end up being considered a 'line of business' app.
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#15Im considering signing up and trying out your service. What is holding me back are all questions I was hoping to have answered on your website. The main questions I have are important implementation details that I think customers a going to care about. What language, framework, dependencies, are handling requests? What is the performance like? How do I scale?
Also, slow down if youre shipping typos on your landing page: revolutonizes
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#16why people here would help them, you're just trying to steal their job.
If all you do is bang out CRUD classes that talk to an ORM all day, you're essentially a commodity.
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#17One question I have with a project like this is: suppose I used it, and got traction. What is the story if I then realize that I need to migrate to a more traditional architecture?
Take the code they give you and change it?
I think that's the ideal story: the system generates an intermediate representation that can be interpreted or compiled to a programming language. There are bindings to common languages/runtimes, and you can take your system and leave at any point.
In practice, lock-in seems like a real issue.
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#18>The idea is that it allows you to define your database models by specifying what fields to include and BackendLab automatically creates a CRUD API
I don't see the advantage over Firebase FireRules , AWS AppSync , Azure Cosmos or MongoDB Stich all of which have advanced querying options with great SDK and integrations support.
This idea is not bad , it's just it doesn't seem to bring much compared to others on the market already offering BaaS...
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#19On a similar note, what would be a good option for building front-ends without much coding? Maybe something that could export a React project, for quick prototyping.
What would this look like? I understand that there is a specific pattern repeated over and over again with models authentication users and CRUD for a simple backend but even a simple front end seems much harder to implement in a generic way. Maybe some form of templating?
I would think something like Rails scaffolds, only it generates React code. Heck, you could probably extend Rails scaffolds (or other frameworks that provide similar utility) to accomplish this.
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#20Im considering signing up and trying out your service. What is holding me back are all questions I was hoping to have answered on your website. The main questions I have are important implementation details that I think customers a going to care about. What language, framework, dependencies, are handling requests? What is the performance like? How do I scale?
Also, slow down if youre shipping typos on your landing page: revolutonizes
It's a good point. Running your copy through Grammarly will help.