Ask HN: Apps that are built with Git as the back end?

• FluidFramework

  12 4,613 10.0 TypeScript

  Library for building distributed, real-time collaborative web applications

  

The Office 365 backend uses git to store snapshots of documents. [1]

https://github.com/microsoft/FluidFramework/tree/main/server...

• monorepo

  56 945 10.0 JavaScript

  globalization ecosystem && change control SDK

  

Hey HN, I'm working on a project that builds with git as the backend (https://github.com/inlang/inlang) and I'm looking for other projects that have a similar approach.

PS: Also apps such as VS-Code or Obsidian which work on local files and have git plugins would be interesting!

• 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.

  

• drawio-desktop

  125 46,687 8.6 JavaScript

  Official electron build of draw.io

  

Diagrams.net[0] is one such app that can use Git as a backend. Pretty awesome!

[0]: https://www.diagrams.net

• HomeBrew

  1,281 39,303 10.0 Ruby

  🍺 The missing package manager for macOS (or Linux)

  

The leading package manager for macOS Homebrew (https://brew.sh) is Git-based.

• CocoaPods

  54 14,422 8.3 Ruby

  The Cocoa Dependency Manager.

  

• wheaty

  1 45 10.0 JavaScript

  JS-Git based application hosting platform

He has a few websites served directly from a bare git repo powered by https://github.com/creationix/wheaty.

• lit

  3 239 1.0 Lua

  Toolkit for developing, sharing, and running luvit/lua programs and libraries. (by luvit)

  

Another project that uses git as a storage medium is a package server for the node.js API implemented in Lua: https://github.com/luvit/lit.

Both serve files from a git repository, and lit will actually write to the repository.

• 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.

  

• utterances

  75 8,605 0.0 TypeScript

  :crystal_ball: A lightweight comments widget built on GitHub issues

  

Can you elaborate why 3, a git-based comment system, is beneficial? When do comments need to be merged?

PS There is a small web sdk that enables comments on sited via github issues. see https://github.com/utterance/utterances

• lvms-events

  1 2 8.7 HTML

  LVMS Events iCal feed

Interesting - I've been doing similar for a while (not writing about it though), but generally "self-commit" - i.e. the code in the repo commits back to itself, usuualy using github actions, or gitlab. E.g. https://github.com/ukd1/lvms-events

• GitJournal

  54 3,308 8.1 Dart

  Mobile first Note Taking integrated with Git

  

GitJournal comes to mind, "Mobile first Markdown Notes integrated with Git".

https://github.com/GitJournal/GitJournal

Recent HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31914003

• tedit

  1 189 10.0 JavaScript

  Chrome app for tedit (by creationix)

Also spent a few minutes browsing around and found https://github.com/creationix/tedit, a web based editor that reads and writes directly to git (I think).

Like I said Tim has quite a few projects that interact directly with git.

• GitSlick

  1 9 3.7 Shell

  The miniature single-file buzz-word-compliant Git based chat client.

https://github.com/JKrag/GitSlick

He wrote it out of a need and it actually works for his use-case:

> I created GitSlick mostly for sending messages to myself from one machine to another, mostly for use on e.g. customer machines where I can't use our own company Slack, and may be limited in what other tools I can install.

• isomorphic-git

  18 7,278 7.0 JavaScript

  A pure JavaScript implementation of git for node and browsers!

  

• nodegit

  4 5,586 7.4 JavaScript

  Native Node bindings to Git.

  

• wake

  3 87 9.2 C++

  The SiFive wake build tool

  

Wake is a build tool that aims to replace make/bazel/etc. It requires that source files are checked into git before it will recognize them. https://github.com/sifive/wake

• tldr

  262 48,296 10.0 Markdown

  📚 Collaborative cheatsheets for console commands

  

The https://tldr.sh/ clients all essentially are frontends for the git repository where the pages are stored.

• InfluxDB

  www.influxdata.com sponsored

  Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.

  

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