Does anyone use JSON files as a database? Best practises? Or should I use a "real" database?

• BroofaJS

  2 211 1.8 JavaScript

  Misc. JS utilities that may be of broader interest

It's possible to work around this and still use a JSON-ish format. For example, my @broofa/persistentmap project provides an ES6 Map API backed by a persistent append-only file in NDJSON format. (Note: NDJSON isn't really a spec so much as a "convention"). But, honestly,

• ndjson-spec

  6 633 0.0

  Specification

  

It's possible to work around this and still use a JSON-ish format. For example, my @broofa/persistentmap project provides an ES6 Map API backed by a persistent append-only file in NDJSON format. (Note: NDJSON isn't really a spec so much as a "convention"). But, honestly,

• SurveyJS

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  Open-Source JSON Form Builder to Create Dynamic Forms Right in Your App. With SurveyJS form UI libraries, you can build and style forms in a fully-integrated drag & drop form builder, render them in your JS app, and store form submission data in any backend, inc. PHP, ASP.NET Core, and Node.js.

  

• node-skeleton

  1 36 0.0 JavaScript

  Starter skeleton for Node applications

  

If you like this stile, I highly encourage you to use sql base db and forget about using ORMs (they eventually get in a way at best, and create quagmire of performance issues at the worst) For a clean and straightforward use example have a look at: https://github.com/lighthouse-labs/node-skeleton

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