✨ Wrote an essay about Riffle, a new project I've been working on w/ , and Daniel Jackson!
Guiding question: could we simplify app dev w/ a new kind of reactive local-first database?
Here's why I'm excited about this work:
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great essay!
I like the idea of stack compression. Seems like the way to go here is to build up from the database. What if Postgres came with UI building blocks? and all you could do was write CSS. you could build new UI blocks but it'd have to start from the DB
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Yeah, this is pretty close to the first thing we tried! I think the main difficulty is that SQL is a pretty rough language for this (... flashbacks to trying to do SQL metaprogramming just to control sort order).
I'd love to try this with a non-SQL relational language, though
i'm definitely not a postgres export but i know there are materialized views. What if SQL included the view?
SELECT <VerticalStack>{name, birthdate, location AS <View>loc: ?</View>}</VerticalStack> FROM users
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