emo-link VS database-js

A few weeks back, I learned that there is an internationalized version of URL called IRI that supports the entire Unicode set.\n\nSo, for fun, I made an emoji-based URL shortener based on URL-safe encoding of a UUID using emoji, which takes it from 32 => \~10 chars! As a bonus, the ID generation can be done client side, so this is a zero-backend lift! \n\nBehold! An Example!\n\nhttps://emol.ink/😻👩🏿\u200d🤝\u200d👨🏾👃🏾🛴👩🏾\u200d🎨🏍️🤷🏻\u200d♀🧑🏻\u200d🎨🧹🚚✋🏽\n\nFun Surprises\n\n* Emoji links (aka IRIs) work almost everywhere (but not Twitter 💀)\n* Client-side unique ID generation is awesome. It's backendless and offline-capable while still being collision-free\n* Infinite address space = less stress about bad actors.\n\nLinks and Stuff\n\n🌟 Try it out: https://emol.ink/ \n📚 How it works: https://ericbaer.com/blog/emo-link \n🔧 The Code: https://github.com/baer/emo-link\n\n \nThis is my first time posting a project to Reddit, so please upvote or share if you liked it I guess.\n\nFeature requests, comments, and PRs welcome!

Sooooooo, since I posted to Reddit, I used Cloudflare's Turnstile to do bot mitigation and to protect e from having to pay tens of dollars for a KV store (I'm on the free tier). So, yes, technically, there is a function that acts as the backend.

🔧 The Code: https://github.com/baer/emo-link

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