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Re: Show HN: Typebase – A single-folder back end you write in TypeScript

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Post by scrollaway »

Scratching my head a little bit here, I'm not sure how this differs from NextJS (or Vite) with a layer of drizzle & better-auth.

Not that that layer isn't important. We ended up building something like this at Ingram, nextkit: https://github.com/ingram-technologies/nextkit - but we distribute it as a set of micro libraries that work well together rather than a unified framework. (Auth is nk-auth, built on top of betterauth, and sql is nk-db, built on top of drizzle)

You got to pretty much the same conclusions we did though regarding the "why".

Re: Show HN: Typebase – A single-folder back end you write in TypeScript

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Post by virgil_disgr4ce »

pyrolistical wrote: post #9

It’s like next.js but for backend. Personally not for me. These are very productive once you learn the shape they expect. But the wheel needs to be reinvented on how to do everything. I ran have straight forward verbose code with no hidden control flow

Am I missing something? The entire point of next.js is that it's backend+frontend in one project

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Post by apsurd »

virgil_disgr4ce wrote: post #13
pyrolistical wrote: post #9

It’s like next.js but for backend. Personally not for me. These are very productive once you learn the shape they expect. But the wheel needs to be reinvented on how to do everything. I ran have straight forward verbose code with no hidden control flow

Am I missing something? The entire point of next.js is that it's backend+frontend in one project

that’s likely the promise but it’s so confusing and high cognitive overhead to maintain that backend frontend relationship. ‘use client’ - i think the special sauce for why people use nextjs is all frontend based. the frontend that comes from the backend.

nextjs dx is a special kind of hell. disclaimer: im just a simple rails guy.

Re: Show HN: Typebase – A single-folder back end you write in TypeScript

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Post by adamddev1 »

phren0logy wrote: post #3

I love the (well-disclosed) fake testimonials. Hilarious!

> “I’ve told four separate therapists about Typebase. Two stopped taking me as a client. The other two are now shipping an app with it.”

So good. I laughed out loud at this.

Re: Show HN: Typebase – A single-folder back end you write in TypeScript

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Post by jodacola »

pyrolistical wrote: post #9

It’s like next.js but for backend. Personally not for me. These are very productive once you learn the shape they expect. But the wheel needs to be reinvented on how to do everything. I ran have straight forward verbose code with no hidden control flow

> once you learn the shape they expect

I’m reminded of this essay discussing frameworks versus libraries [0].

[0] https://tomasp.net/blog/2015/library-frameworks/

Re: Show HN: Typebase – A single-folder back end you write in TypeScript

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Post by NoItsDanger »

pyrolistical wrote: post #9

It’s like next.js but for backend. Personally not for me. These are very productive once you learn the shape they expect. But the wheel needs to be reinvented on how to do everything. I ran have straight forward verbose code with no hidden control flow

I’ve been saying for years we need CCR (Client Centric Rendering).

What we do is have the server just serve the page and let the client handle most of the rendering.

It’s novel and innovative

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