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

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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

Smells like SPA

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

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I’ve been curious about trying the Supabase type of RLS model for an app but haven’t yet. I like the idea of the db defined api like postgraphile and hasura but had trouble with testing and ergonomics. This looks pretty nice though, it’s cool that you’re thinking about ergonomics for working with coding agents. I feel like a hard thing with that rn is that everyone is kind of figuring out different workflows for AI c…

I've only had experience in one full-stack project with supabase RLS so experience is limited. However it seemed like a mess. Seems much more human-maintainable to have a classic spring/golang backend. For sure in some projects, esp mobile apps, it makes more sense, and fable-level models might also keep it from being full spaghetti. Also Supabase at that time wasn't reliable and it's not really made for self-hosting…

I thought supabase was mainly for self hosting? Like it was self-hostable firebase... Not too familiar with it though.

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

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The pronunciation of "Vercel" near the end of the "Typebase in 100s" video was VER -cel, with the emphasis on the first syllable, instead of ver- CEL with the emphasis on the second syllable. Was the video generated by AI?

Duh

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

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The pronunciation of "Vercel" near the end of the "Typebase in 100s" video was VER -cel, with the emphasis on the first syllable, instead of ver- CEL with the emphasis on the second syllable. Was the video generated by AI?

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

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Fake reviews are a hard no-no imo. Really weird addition, but I suppose it wasn't you who got the idea. Looks an awful lot like a orpc, just built on top of drizzle instead of raw queries. I'm sure some people want this, but it seems like gross duct tape that will bite you in three years

I’m very surprised to see others commenting here that they like the fake reviews. Claude loves adding that shit, but you’re allowed to modify and remove the junk it produces.

> * None of these people exist. We checked. Twice. Legal is chill

Maybe I’m just the old man yelling at the clouds, but can we not have some integrity and actually put the truth out there? There is nothing wrong with using AI, but we’re still responsible for our work.

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

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Next.js is a poor choice for a client-side application. It is first and foremost a server-side framework, and trying to force it to be client-side is to work against it. There are so many better options than Next.js for dedicated client-side front-ends.

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

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To be honest, the use of AI in your marketing doesn't bother me. But paired with the fact that you have a newish HN account with no comments ever, and no comments on your own "Show HN" in response to others, doesn't put off strong trust signals.
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