Why do Webdevs keep trying to kill REST?

• hotwire-rails

  98 960 3.2 Ruby

  Discontinued Use Hotwire in your Ruby on Rails app

  

Hotwire sends literal HTML Over The wire

• RxDB

  46 20,581 9.9 TypeScript

  A fast, local first, reactive Database for JavaScript Applications https://rxdb.info/

Offline. Both Firebase Firestore and Amplify AppSync also support offline persistence. Since they know your database schema, it's easy to offer a local replica and conflict resolution. There are vendor agnostic alternatives like RxDB or Redux Offline that take more glue work. Being Offline-first requires you to have a local replica of your data, which means that doing CRUD against your local replica can be much simpler (see below).

• SurveyJS

  surveyjs.io sponsored

  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.

  

• redux-offline

  4 6,137 0.0 JavaScript

  Build Offline-First Apps for Web and React Native

  

Offline. Both Firebase Firestore and Amplify AppSync also support offline persistence. Since they know your database schema, it's easy to offer a local replica and conflict resolution. There are vendor agnostic alternatives like RxDB or Redux Offline that take more glue work. Being Offline-first requires you to have a local replica of your data, which means that doing CRUD against your local replica can be much simpler (see below).

• crdt-example-app

  2 567 0.0 JavaScript

  A full implementation of CRDTs using hybrid logical clocks and a demo app that uses it

Better protocols lead to improved UX (eliminating user-facing errors and offering faster updates) and DX (shifting errors left) and they're so relevant to the "why are you avoiding REST" debate that I split them out to their own category. Technically of course, whatever protocol you use may be a layer atop of REST - if you have a separate layer (like CRDTs) that handles syncing/conflict resolution, then that is the protocol you are really using.

• supabase

  767 65,869 10.0 TypeScript

  The open source Firebase alternative.

  

Supabase (where I am an investor) is a "smart client" solution that works equally well on the server, which invests heavily in the open source PostgREST project.

• WorkOS

  workos.com sponsored

  The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS. The APIs are flexible and easy-to-use, supporting authentication, user identity, and complex enterprise features like SSO and SCIM provisioning.

  

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