The melting pot of JavaScript (2017)

Re:The melting pot of JavaScript (2017) by com2kid on Monday January 07, 2019 @08:48PM (#18852318)

> I do think create-react-app is a good innovation in the JS world. However, I've never found a good equivalent on the back end. Setting up even the most basic CRUD REST API requires a whole lot of typing for very little reward.

This is where services like Google Firebase Functions become useful.

I went from having never written a REST API in my life, to up and running in under 20 minutes.

First time I went to create some endpoints on my own server, wow, that was a pain.

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Re:The melting pot of JavaScript (2017) by _hardwaregeek on Monday January 07, 2019 @10:23PM (#18852848)

Firebase is a dream. It's almost a shame they got bought by Google because it's such a fantastic idea. All of the things I used to dread setting up (auth, deployment, serverless) are automated and dead easy. The documentation is clear and caters to the common usecases. I managed to set up a Sendgrid email that sends on database writes within an hour or two.

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Re:The melting pot of JavaScript (2017) by com2kid on Tuesday January 08, 2019 @12:45PM (#18857571)

> The documentation is clear and caters to the common usecases.

I wouldn't quite say that, but I'll agree with your other points. :)

(More than once the docs have been out of date, or just flat out wrong, costing me many hours of development time...)

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