This is rad! Its so simple to use and I love the idea of making things composable and building off everyone else's code, I'm still trying to wrap my brain around the different ways to use this. Keep up the good work!
I'd go full stack Rails with Turbo and Postgres DB. As things grow, you can easily migrate your Rails app towards a JSON API layer and create new clients to interact with it either with your favorite JS framework or mobile app. I just love how quickly you can churn out new features in Rails -- or how easy it is to implement things like authentication or an admin panel by simply adding a gem.
I have some personal apps that I use regularly that were being hosted on the free or $7 tier at Heroku, all three were Rails apps with postgres and one needed redis. I spent about 20 hours trying out AWS, Digital Ocean, and Render.com. I eventually decided on Digital Ocean as the ease of use + pricing was where I wanted it to be. I spend about $14/mo on hosting at Digital Ocean (db + apps) and grabbed a free instance on Redis Cloud. Its currently more expensive than Heroku but it does provide me with better especially with my db setup.
Its possible they need someone with a "Senior" resume so they are able to charge $200/hour for their work. Then they are free to outsource it to 2 or 3 junior devs in a much lower priced market and pocket the difference.
Yeah, I used the Github design system called Primer for most of my views, I like the simplicity of it and it feels natural since I spend so much time in Github. And that's probably a good idea, thanks!
Hello! For the past six months I've been developing a simple note app to aid my workflow. Recently, I've spent a lot of time at work doing architecture work and a lot of that time has been researching new technologies and unfortunately this hasn't left me a lot of time write code. This application has served the purpose of allowing me to continue to write some code on the side and build out a simple and powerful tool to share the research I've been working on with my team.
There really isn't anything special about the application when it comes to notes apps, it uses a pretty generic flavor of markdown for writing and formatting your notes, it allows you to make any of your notes public and provide people with a share link to read your content, it also encrypts the data at a column level to add an extra layer of security, it has a feature to add a little more structure to your notes by having multiple input boxes on a single note, and its also surprisingly fast!
The app is currently free to use (very much in beta) and is still lacking some features but I wanted to get it out there and get some feedback from the community. Let me know what you think! Thanks!
I'd agree with this sentiment, on the backend, it isn't really easier and it's not really harder either. You end up dealing with different problems than with REST (as noted, different types of performance problems, more issues with error handling have been my biggest two).
The frontend developers see the biggest improvements, they have one endpoint to worry about and using a library like Apollo makes things really nice.
Overall, I think the improvements are worth it, especially when working on internal APIs.