Git as back end for applications like Figma and Google Docs

Posted by samuelstros on Monday October 17, 2022 @11:49AM
from the github.com dept.

https://github.com/inlang/inlang/blob/780f172ed0cc2aeb94b4ad899a5fedcf35da6e2e/content/blog/001-git-as-backend/index.md

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Re:Git as back end for applications like Figma and Google Docs by 21312490u123 on Monday October 17, 2022 @12:33PM (#33235964)

Isn't realtime-collaboration much more useful for stuff like Design than git workflows? I think there's a reason why Figma beat the competition back in the day...

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Re:Git as back end for applications like Figma and Google Docs by samuelstros on Monday October 17, 2022 @12:39PM (#33236072)

I think adding real-time collaboration to git and thereby create an additional "git workflow" might be the way to go. Because, indeed, real-time collaboration is great. But so is async collaboration via branches and PRs.

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Re:Git as back end for applications like Figma and Google Docs by samuelstros on Monday October 17, 2022 @11:49AM (#33235228)

The post become too long for hackernews, I decided to put the post on GitHub for easier readability.

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Re:Git as back end for applications like Figma and Google Docs by xq3000 on Tuesday October 18, 2022 @07:42PM (#33255582)

I think there are already some Git SDKs out there. For example https://github.com/go-git/go-git

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Re:Git as back end for applications like Figma and Google Docs by samuelstros on Wednesday October 19, 2022 @05:46PM (#33268297)

Thanks for the link. go-git seems to be more of an (extended git) API than SDK. I should have elaborated on what I mean with a "git sdk". I implicitly include anything that is required to build an application: migrations, real-time collaboration, simple query API/

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