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0 pointsbrandensilva1y ago0 comments

We have been moving to localized cache stores and there aren't any client side loaders anymore outside of the initial cache generation. Think like Linear, Figma, etc

It just depends on what you are after. You can completely drop the backend, apis, and have a real time web socketed sync layer that goes direct to the database. There is a row based permissions layer still here for security but you get the idea.

The client experience is important in our app and a backend just slows us down we have found.

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dingnuts1y ago

>and have a real time web socketed sync layer that goes direct to the database

you might be able to drop a web router but pretending this is "completely drop[ping] the backend" is silly. Something is going to have to manage connections to the DB and you're not -- I seriously hope -- literally going to expose your DB socket to the wider Internet. Presumably you will have load balancing, DB replicas, and that sort of thing, as your scale increases.

This is setting aside just how complex managing a DB is. "completely drop the backend" except the most complicated part of it, sure. Minor details.

threetonesun1y ago

I assumed they meant a client side DB and then a wrapper that syncs it to some other storage, which wouldn't be terribly different than say a native application the relies on a cloud backed storage system.

Which is fine and cool for an app, but if you do something like this for say, a form for a doctor's office, I wish bad things upon you.

veqq1y ago

> We have been moving to localized cache stores and there aren't any client side loaders anymore outside of the initial cache generation. Think like Linear, Figma, etc.

That's never the case.

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