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0 pointsdorian-marchal4y ago0 comments

> There is no easy way to save the data directly to the file system.

That's what absurd SQL is for (link in the parent comment).

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I read that one and agree it feels absurd. Not something I want to depend on.

I believe the absurd things are: - the idea (i.e. storing a database in a database) - the fact that the resulting storage is faster than vanilla indexed db.

The repo's readme is a bit misleading and it does make it look like a mad scientist experiment but you can read more about it here (really interesting stuff): https://jlongster.com/future-sql-web

Obviously this project is still young, but I find it convincing (disclaimer: I don't use it yet).

samwillis4y ago

I’m 100% sure this is (very nearly) suitable for production. It works and works well.

It is only a matter of time before browsers implement the proposed sandboxed virtual file system apis with block level access and this would be superseded.

PopeUrbanX4y ago

Do you know of any oss projects using absurd? Or maybe an ORM built on top of it? It doesn't seem like there's any ecosystem built around it yet, and their example project is too trivial to be useful. I'd have to have to built even the most basic CRUD functionality from scratch.

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