Show HN: Iso20022.js – Create payments in 3 lines of code
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Re: Show HN: Iso20022.js – Create payments in 3 lines of code
#2Hey HN,
My name is Svapnil Ankolkar and I've recently built iso20022.js, a library for creating ISO20022 payments in Typescript.
The goal of this project is to be the easiest way to create, and eventually ingest, files in the ISO20022 standard, the defacto XML standard for bank payments.
I'd love to know what you think and importantly know about any improvements you'd like us to make!
Re: Show HN: Iso20022.js – Create payments in 3 lines of code
#3Three lines with payloads minified?
Re: Show HN: Iso20022.js – Create payments in 3 lines of code
#4as an average joe, I'm curious about how all this works / what else you need to make it work (what's a banking partner, etc?)
Re: Show HN: Iso20022.js – Create payments in 3 lines of code
#5Three lines with payloads minified?
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Re: Show HN: Iso20022.js – Create payments in 3 lines of code
#6Hey HN, My name is Svapnil Ankolkar and I've recently built iso20022.js, a library for creating ISO20022 payments in Typescript. The goal of this project is to be the easiest way to create, and eventually ingest, files in the ISO20022 standard, the defacto XML standard for bank payments. I'd love to know what you think and importantly know about any improvements you'd like us to make!
Since you do say it in HN tagline, what are the "3 lines of code"? I can only see 43 LoC in the landing page. A tool to help massively with payments is always welcome of course, but if this is really 43 lines instead of 3 it'd feel like shady marketing (no judgement until there's a reply/clarification).
Re: Show HN: Iso20022.js – Create payments in 3 lines of code
#7Hey HN, My name is Svapnil Ankolkar and I've recently built iso20022.js, a library for creating ISO20022 payments in Typescript. The goal of this project is to be the easiest way to create, and eventually ingest, files in the ISO20022 standard, the defacto XML standard for bank payments. I'd love to know what you think and importantly know about any improvements you'd like us to make!
Since you do say it in HN tagline, what are the "3 lines of code"? I can only see 43 LoC in the landing page. A tool to help massively with payments is always welcome of course, but if this is really 43 lines instead of 3 it'd feel like shady marketing (no judgement until there's a reply/clarification).
I mean, it's 3 statements with like 40 lines of JSON options. Debatable what counts as a LOC, but it's still pretty impressive.
Re: Show HN: Iso20022.js – Create payments in 3 lines of code
#8Hey HN, My name is Svapnil Ankolkar and I've recently built iso20022.js, a library for creating ISO20022 payments in Typescript. The goal of this project is to be the easiest way to create, and eventually ingest, files in the ISO20022 standard, the defacto XML standard for bank payments. I'd love to know what you think and importantly know about any improvements you'd like us to make!
Since you do say it in HN tagline, what are the "3 lines of code"? I can only see 43 LoC in the landing page. A tool to help massively with payments is always welcome of course, but if this is really 43 lines instead of 3 it'd feel like shady marketing (no judgement until there's a reply/clarification).
I imagine they are counting object literals as one line of code, I'm inclined to agree. Maybe they could have said in "3 statements of code".
> import { ISO20022 } from 'iso20022.js'
> const iso20022 = new ISO20022({ /.../ });
> const creditPaymentInitiation = iso20022.createSWIFTCreditPaymentInitiation({ /.../});
> console.log(creditPaymentInitiation.toString());
Now are we counting the import and not counting the log statement, or are we counting the log statement and not the import?
I'm not too worried about it.
Re: Show HN: Iso20022.js – Create payments in 3 lines of code
#9Hey HN, My name is Svapnil Ankolkar and I've recently built iso20022.js, a library for creating ISO20022 payments in Typescript. The goal of this project is to be the easiest way to create, and eventually ingest, files in the ISO20022 standard, the defacto XML standard for bank payments. I'd love to know what you think and importantly know about any improvements you'd like us to make!
Since you do say it in HN tagline, what are the "3 lines of code"? I can only see 43 LoC in the landing page. A tool to help massively with payments is always welcome of course, but if this is really 43 lines instead of 3 it'd feel like shady marketing (no judgement until there's a reply/clarification).
It's the import, the "const iso20022 = new ISO20022" line, and the "const creditPaymentInitiation = iso20022.createSWIFTCreditPaymentInitiation". The big data chunks are being counted as one line.
I will admit I'm usually very skeptical about "Do X in Y line" claims because usually you can do anything in one line by shoving the entire codebase behind a "DoIt()" call. But I'll actually give them this one. I'm not even worried about the data taking up so many lines as clearly the data is necessary. If they were full of mandatory function calls or something I'd ding 'em too, but they're not, it's just the data you need.
Re: Show HN: Iso20022.js – Create payments in 3 lines of code
#10Hey HN, My name is Svapnil Ankolkar and I've recently built iso20022.js, a library for creating ISO20022 payments in Typescript. The goal of this project is to be the easiest way to create, and eventually ingest, files in the ISO20022 standard, the defacto XML standard for bank payments. I'd love to know what you think and importantly know about any improvements you'd like us to make!
Since you do say it in HN tagline, what are the "3 lines of code"? I can only see 43 LoC in the landing page. A tool to help massively with payments is always welcome of course, but if this is really 43 lines instead of 3 it'd feel like shady marketing (no judgement until there's a reply/clarification).
You import the library, initialise an object and call its method. I think it's fair enough to call that example three lines of code.
The bigger question of course is what do you end up with. Clearly that method call isn't going to actually send an instruction to your bank to debit your account and credit somebody else's. I guess `creditPaymentInitiation` is an object that has can be converted to a properly formatted message that can then be sent to your bank using an external tool?