Build a hit counter for Gatsby with React, AWS Lambda, and FaunaDB
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Re: Build a hit counter for Gatsby with React, AWS Lambda, and FaunaDB
#2I may be missing something here, but... all that for a hit counter? Even using React for the front-end seems overkill for a little widget.
Re: Build a hit counter for Gatsby with React, AWS Lambda, and FaunaDB
#3I may be missing something here, but... all that for a hit counter? Even using React for the front-end seems overkill for a little widget.
I don't see any locking either, so I imagine it misses some counts.
Re: Build a hit counter for Gatsby with React, AWS Lambda, and FaunaDB
#4I may be missing something here, but... all that for a hit counter? Even using React for the front-end seems overkill for a little widget.
these days the hard part isn't the view counter logic, it's managing the 395,000 dependencies in your project
Re: Build a hit counter for Gatsby with React, AWS Lambda, and FaunaDB
#5I may be missing something here, but... all that for a hit counter? Even using React for the front-end seems overkill for a little widget.
i totally agree. plus the fact that he's using a DAS for storing the data. if there is one thing i refuse to do is not be in charge of my database or using something proprietary.
Re: Build a hit counter for Gatsby with React, AWS Lambda, and FaunaDB
#6I may be missing something here, but... all that for a hit counter? Even using React for the front-end seems overkill for a little widget.
It reads to me more like a sponsored blog post by the db saas mentioned in the article.
Re: Build a hit counter for Gatsby with React, AWS Lambda, and FaunaDB
#7I may be missing something here, but... all that for a hit counter? Even using React for the front-end seems overkill for a little widget.
The hit counter is merely an example! I see this blog post as an intro to how-to-connect React up to a hosted database over this fancy serverless paradigm thingy.
Re: Build a hit counter for Gatsby with React, AWS Lambda, and FaunaDB
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Re: Build a hit counter for Gatsby with React, AWS Lambda, and FaunaDB
#9> q.Update(document.ref, { data: { hits: document.data.hits + 1, ...
Does FaunaDB have an "atomic increment" a la Firestore? Knowing nothing about FaunaDB, I suspect this code in the blog post has the potential to "lose" hits that come in at roughly the same time...
Re: Build a hit counter for Gatsby with React, AWS Lambda, and FaunaDB
#10I may be missing something here, but... all that for a hit counter? Even using React for the front-end seems overkill for a little widget.
these days the hard part isn't the view counter logic, it's managing the 395,000 dependencies in your project
I used to be “dependency-first” for library code, but I’ve noticed lately that my first question has been “why wouldn’t it be a good idea to build in house?”