json-server VS Lowdb

JSON Server

Our backend will be little more than a two-way translation layer between the database and the user interface (UI). Later in this post we will identify other responsibilities of a backend but our implementation will be kept simple to demonstrate the fundamental machinery and concepts. It is worth noting the backend comes in two parts, web server and application server. Both json-server and Express are able to facilitate these roles from the same URL. This is very useful for our tutorial because we do not have to configure the server to manage Cross-Origin Resource Sharing (CORS). It is quite typical for production systems to separate these server roles for all sorts of good reasons but for now it would just create an additional complication.

JSON-Server creates fake REST API with a minimum amount of configuration, it provides a simple way to create mock RESTful APIs and easily define the required endpoints, allows easy definition of the data schema in a JSON file and can serve as a reference for each figure in the project.

I thought about usingJson Server (hosting the repo with the words on Github to begin with), Googlesheets, or maybe Firestore (i would prefer not to use it ,to avoid extra costs just in case it gets a reasonable amount of users). It isnt a big app so i just want a simple solution for storing the words and fetching them.

There is https://github.com/typicode/json-server that is really useful for that matter

JSON server https://github.com/typicode/json-server

https://github.com/typicode/lowdb is a cool option.

I just finished the first stable version of go-store, a lightweight embeeded database written in pure Go. It was heavily inspired by lowdb. The motivation was that I needed something simple to store information for another project and that I wanted to try out Go's generics.

https://jsondb.io/ or https://github.com/typicode/lowdb

By default, requests are stored locally in a JSON file with the help of LowDB.

For 1: Don't.* For 2: You're looking for a cache. I've published an OS npm module. Looking at the code might help: https://github.com/tq-bit/qache/blob/master/src/Cache.ts For 3: Maybe the code of lowdb can point you in the right direction: https://github.com/typicode/lowdb/tree/main/src

Another thing you might consider is literally using the filesystem as a database. There are plenty of vanillla ways to simply read/write to JSON or you could even use a JSON based db github.com/typicode/lowdb again you don't need to think about it as a db your just handling JS objects.

I did want something performant so that I would (hopefully) not run into issues when there are around 100-ish clients connected at the same time. I looked at low-db for a while but did not like that it would JSON.stringify my whole database on every change, which could become a problem when it becomes to big.