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Show HN: Instantly generate code for your Django/Node starter app, ORM and APIs

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Re: Show HN: Instantly generate code for your Django/Node starter app, ORM and APIs

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Post by surferbayarea »

nikolasburk wrote: post #7

This looks really cool!, congrats for the launch! I noticed you're using Sequelize as an ORM for the Node.js version and was wondering if you evaluated other libraries for that. I work at Prisma [1] and we're building a new kind of ORM for Node.js and TypeScript. We've also seen that many library authors (e.g. KeystoneJS, RedwoodJS, Blitz, Amplication, Wasp, ...) [2] and fullstack templates like Bedrock [3] are picki…

Thanks. While we began with Express, we intend to add support for more ORMs, so that users can pick the one they want. We did come across Prisma and we are exploring supporting it.

For now, we support MySQL, PostgreSQL and SQLite, but are also planning to add support for Mongo. Do you have Mongo/NoSQL databases on your roadmap?

It would be great to connect on a zoom - I'm the co-founder of imagine, my email is anusheel@imagine.ai

Re: Show HN: Instantly generate code for your Django/Node starter app, ORM and APIs

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Post by infamia »

surferbayarea wrote: post #2

Imagine is a labor of love for my co-founder and me. I’ve been a software engineer for over a decade and we’ve overseen the build out of several (80+) software products over the years. Each time we were acutely reminded of how much redundancy there exists while writing code, especially for commonly used components and features in software applications. Also, while we believe the current version of the no-code movemen…

Great looking app and excellent implementation so far! Under the models section you should consider adding an "Import CSV" function. Each column in the spreadsheet would represent a model. The first row would be the Model's name. Subsequent rows would be field names. Teams that are ready to start coding ideally should have their data model already created in a spreadsheet or something that can export to CSV. Importing a CSV from a spreadsheet could help speed things along.

Re: Show HN: Instantly generate code for your Django/Node starter app, ORM and APIs

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Post by sorenbs »

surferbayarea wrote: post #11
nikolasburk wrote: post #7

This looks really cool!, congrats for the launch! I noticed you're using Sequelize as an ORM for the Node.js version and was wondering if you evaluated other libraries for that. I work at Prisma [1] and we're building a new kind of ORM for Node.js and TypeScript. We've also seen that many library authors (e.g. KeystoneJS, RedwoodJS, Blitz, Amplication, Wasp, ...) [2] and fullstack templates like Bedrock [3] are picki…

Thanks. While we began with Express, we intend to add support for more ORMs, so that users can pick the one they want. We did come across Prisma and we are exploring supporting it. For now, we support MySQL, PostgreSQL and SQLite, but are also planning to add support for Mongo. Do you have Mongo/NoSQL databases on your roadmap? It would be great to connect on a zoom - I'm the co-founder of imagine, my email is anushe…

Imagine looks super cool!

Prisma has Mongo support coming really soon, and we will be speaking more about it at https://www.mongodb.com/live in July.

Other NoSQL and relational databases to follow, but we have no timeline for that yet.

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