A Poor Man's API

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  • Many projects grow to the point that the limitations of writing everything in views and stored procedures becomes more painful than writing the CRUD code in Python, Node, Ruby, PHP, or whatever.

    Personally, I’d give a shout for https://api-platform.com/.

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    An isomorphic Ruby client for Supabase.

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    The open source Firebase alternative.

  • That's what I actually admire about Supabase [0].

    The folks created an almost full fledged Firebase replacement by clipping pieces together (similar to the article, replacing APISIX with Kong) and it allows them to iterate super fast.

    Pragmatic, and nice if you're on the receiving end of it .

    [0] https://github.com/supabase/supabase#how-it-works

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    REST API for any Postgres database

  • To be fair, begriffs never shut down any discussion of HATEOAS, previous contributors did - because at the time users were asking for more JSON capabilities from PostgREST and we needed to focus on those.

    We're still open on adding HATEOAS, I've just opened an issue for it: https://github.com/PostgREST/postgrest/issues/2579

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