Re:Launch HN: Defer (YC W23) – Zero-infrastructure backgroun...
by johtso on Friday March 10, 2023 @03:15PM
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I do wish people had less of a tendency to be shy about Typescript in their product documentation. It's a selling point, show it off! Examples end up being a little more verbose, but they actually end up being useful for people that are writing Typescript (probably a closely overlapping group with those that care about their background jobs not disappearing).
Re:Launch HN: Defer (YC W23) – Zero-infrastructure backgroun...
by Aeolun on Saturday March 11, 2023 @09:18AM
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I use included Typescript types on npm as a sort of unofficial filter for what libraries I want to use now.
Re:Launch HN: Defer (YC W23) – Zero-infrastructure backgroun...
by bluelightning2k on Friday March 10, 2023 @03:53PM
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Simple type safety from front end to long running jobs is actually a big deal. You should highlight this.
To achieve type safety normally involves a shared interfaces folder and has to be specifically implemented
You are right. We provide an infrastructure service. We mean by "zero infrastructure" that you don't have to implement and/or manage your own. Our service could run on a platform other than AWS, though, as we are not relying on AWS-only specific services (e.g., lambda, SQS, etc.). Of course, like any other cloud or on-premises service, we could have downtime.
> The API looks nice - but no mention of typescript at all in this post or the website, so presumably type-safety isn't the thing.
Glad to hear this. Although we don't mention it, our client is written in Typescript. If you want to know more, you can check out the code: https://github.com/defer-run/defer.client.