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Re:PostgREST by alexrtan on Sunday November 03, 2019 @01:48PM (#21435756)
We've been using it for about a year in production across four projects and it's been a major boon for productivity because it allows our frontend developers to do simple backend features on their own. I think there are a lot of use cases where it would be a great fit for many projects and there are I'm sure a lot of companies that could save a lot of time by using it as part of their toolkit.

Also it doesn't have to be all or nothing. For example, there might be an API endpoint needed where there are multiple mutations needed inside a transaction but we just route between that custom backend and postgrest using nginx.

Other things we use:

- dbmate for migrations: https://github.com/amacneil/dbmate

- postgrest-client, a library I developed for constructing type-safe queries to Postgrest in Elm: https://github.com/alex-tan/postgrest-client

Re:PostgREST by bayesian_horse on Monday November 04, 2019 @07:19AM (#21440916)
You are addressing one of the issues on my mind: Migration.

In many situations, some kind of formal migration management is obligatory and my guess is that with PostgREST you will often want to test your migrations on a current database snapshot before deploying it in production...