SyncNinja
Dev tools
client server framework
SHOW HN2015
How HN took it
1 positive, 0 neutral or asking, 1 mixed, 3 critical, out of 5 comments about the project. Thread score -0.14.
Idea: 0 for, 2 againstDocs: 1 for, 0 againstPrivacy: 0 for, 1 against
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What people liked
Community participation from day zero is welcome.
From 1 comment
Hey, thanks for the frank comment. Those are fair concerns and there will be a lot to address, for sure. The reason why we posted this so early (without any code) is that we…
vladaionescu on HN
Objections
Tight coupling of business logic with browser emulation harms server and client performance.
From 2 comments
The project proposes a model that will have significant (negative) implications on client performance, server performance, developer cognitive overload, and latency (despite…
SwitchLink on HNUnless I'm missing some of the problems you're trying to solve, this seems like an extremely over engineered solution to the problem of code duplication (like validation) and…
zerovox on HN
Larger attack surface on the server running V8 with mirrored client code.
From 2 comments
The project proposes a model that will have significant (negative) implications on client performance, server performance, developer cognitive overload, and latency (despite…
SwitchLink on HN> I wouldn't worry about V8 vulnerabilities, there are many node servers running in production today, in general, and they are doing fine. The problem is your concept is more…
SwitchLink on HN
Lacks a working prototype; only an idea so far.
From 2 comments
The project proposes a model that will have significant (negative) implications on client performance, server performance, developer cognitive overload, and latency (despite…
SwitchLink on HNNo, we're just starting out, pivoting from a previous similar idea. We wanted to include community from day zero, so anyone can contribute to the design as well.
vladaionescu on HN
Obstructs a platform-neutral API needed for native mobile and other clients.
From 2 comments
Unless I'm missing some of the problems you're trying to solve, this seems like an extremely over engineered solution to the problem of code duplication (like validation) and…
zerovox on HN> I wouldn't worry about V8 vulnerabilities, there are many node servers running in production today, in general, and they are doing fine. The problem is your concept is more…
SwitchLink on HN
Requests
Show a working prototype or demo source code.
From 2 comments
Project looks promising... Do you have source code to a demo app available?
rywalker on HNThe project proposes a model that will have significant (negative) implications on client performance, server performance, developer cognitive overload, and latency (despite…
SwitchLink on HN
Add a concrete example of the value over plain AJAX wrappers.
From 1 comment
The project proposes a model that will have significant (negative) implications on client performance, server performance, developer cognitive overload, and latency (despite…
SwitchLink on HN
Questions
Is the project open source?
From 1 comment
Very interesting. Is your project open source by any chance?
vladaionescu on HN
How the security model is handled.
From 1 comment
Security needs to be air-tight for sure, but we think we address it in the doc. Let me know if you have something specific that you think could be leveraged. We talked with quite…
vladaionescu on HN
Alternatives named
Shared Node code between client and server.
From 1 comment
Unless I'm missing some of the problems you're trying to solve, this seems like an extremely over engineered solution to the problem of code duplication (like validation) and…
zerovox on HN
View model synchronization over websockets with Orleans and SignalR.
From 2 comments
I've been working on a project where we generate and synchronize view models (instead of full views like this proposal) between the server and web/app clients. We maintain…
Maarten88 on HNThis is a startup, the application is not open source but everything we use is. We are building on the Microsoft stack, which might make it uninteresting for most of the HN…
Maarten88 on HN
API client generators such as Alpaca, APIMatic and Unio.
From 1 comment
> I wouldn't worry about V8 vulnerabilities, there are many node servers running in production today, in general, and they are doing fine. The problem is your concept is more…
SwitchLink on HN