You can serve static data over HTTP
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You can serve static data over HTTP
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Re: You can serve static data over HTTP
#2Thanks, I think I can actually apply this idea actually. I'm writing a chat app for fun and one of the (admittedly small) issues I'm dealing with is cleanly storing the local state of the chat so that it appears correctly on refresh. There's some complexity involved with how messages are served, received, etc. with notifications, dings, animations, whatever -- but maybe saving that information to a file (as an alternative to localStorage or database read) could be a robust alternative to whatever I was trying to do. I'll give it a try.
Re: You can serve static data over HTTP
#3that's why I really, really hope ActivityPub or Nostr protocol could be designed as static-website compatible. But nope.
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#4Not really in the spirit of the post but I learned recently that you can also back your API Gateway apis in AWS with an s3 bucket: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/apigateway/latest/developerguide...
Makes it super simple to implement mocks of your api design before building the api.
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#5Rails, by default, will put a “.json” suffix on json routes. This is so supremely useful if you have a Rails api app, speaking to some over complicated front end that might need a quick and dirty mock for something. Just serve your /api/thing.json from somewhere. Only issue is with HTTP verbs other than GET, but usually at that point I need a lot more than this 15second mock. Good for testing little things though.
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#6Not from a modern developer. You need to jump down the rabbit hole of the history of solid and proven solutions.
Indeed. I've noticed an increasing number of people who call themselves "developers" and appear to create software, but all they can do is follow step-by-step tutorials to glue together some massively bloated thing that they have absolutely no understanding of, much less the skills to debug it when something doesn't work perfectly as expected.
Re: You can serve static data over HTTP
#7What if the data is dynamic but small and low qps? What are the current easiest projects and services for authed data CRUD? Is firebase still good?
Re: You can serve static data over HTTP
#8that's why I really, really hope ActivityPub or Nostr protocol could be designed as static-website compatible. But nope.
RSS seems closest to that.
Re: You can serve static data over HTTP
#9Was this is a joke or something? You could have always done this with whatever framework you were using including Express, FastAPI, Flask & everything else....
Re: You can serve static data over HTTP
#10What if the data is dynamic but small and low qps? What are the current easiest projects and services for authed data CRUD? Is firebase still good?
I’ve used it a bit recently and it doesn’t seem terrible!
But only for prototyping and testing the auth and database tools.
Haven’t really made a decision on it vs rolling my own in Rails.