database-js VS shadcn/ui

That I understand.

But of course for the user of the driver it might be fine if that is 2 or more HTTP requests. I expect that is how PlanetScale does it in their transaction implementation, https://github.com/planetscale/database-js#transactions, and I know that is how Prisma Data Proxy handles it - the transaction is identified with an ID which is returned to the Client and then included in further requests for the same transaction.

It's valid tradeoff to make to prefer a persistent connection to keep the overhead for multiple queries in a transaction as low as possible - which seems what Neon has done here.

The PlanetScale team recently released their database driver which lets your query your PlanetScale database using the Fetch API. This means you can use this library to query your database in edge environments which is HUGE.

> what happens if the company goes down?

It's open-source. What's your concern now?

https://github.com/planetscale/database-js

Shadcn/ui: I've never tried it before but have always wanted to switch from MaterialUI

Honestly the ergonomics of heavily customizable generic component libraries aren't great. Copy and pasting a simple component to make the specific customizations you want helps reduce JS ecosystem churn and dependency pain. Popularity of libraries like shadcn/ui [1] are good acknowledgements of that.

[1] https://ui.shadcn.com/

shadcn/ui

This model is very similar to the popular shadcn workflow. After files are creating in your local repo, you can modify them and check them into source control.

Link: https://ui.shadcn.com/

One of my biggest fears as a frontend dev is to build UIs that are inaccessible for people. It's easy to take so many things for granted.

The good news is you get a lot of accessibility out of the box using native html. For higher abstractions I love working with accessibility first libraries like Shadcn (which is built on top of Radix): https://ui.shadcn.com/

For development of the UI components, we tried something new. Vercel has this new AI tool called v0.dev that allows developers to take advantage of shadcn/ui and Tailwind using nothing but words, which can then be easily downloaded to your local project using nothing but a simple npx command.

Shadcn stands out among the many UI frameworks and libraries as a helpful resource for developers looking for an open-source, customizable way to create stunning and useful user interfaces. Shadcn is a tool to help you build your component library. These are components that you can copy and paste into your apps.