Ask HN: Would more apps build with Git back-end if there’d be a solid SDK?

• monorepo

  56 945 10.0 JavaScript

  globalization ecosystem && change control SDK

  

Hi HN,

we are building a git-based localization solution (https://github.com/inlang/inlang) and we are wondering why there’s not more apps making use of git as their back-end.

Building on git has a bunch of advantages that are much harder to replicate with different architectures (automations, version control, minimal integration management etc) but very few projects use git to its full potential.

Right now building on git is full of tedious workarounds but do you think people would use a git-based architecture for more projects if there was a solid SDK to build with?

• libgit2

  30 9,423 9.6 C

  A cross-platform, linkable library implementation of Git that you can use in your application.

  

Have you seen [libgit2](https://libgit2.org/) and the csharp libgit2sharp? Both seem to be reasonable albeit low level interfaces to a repo.

My opinion is that you’ll still desire some other data store for indexing and searching as your application grows.

• 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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