graphql-gun

Languages and libraries

graphql client library

SHOW HN2017

37points
7comments
#940of 2,242 in 2017
Top 42%of 2017 by points

How HN took it

QuietFewer than 5 comments about the project

0 positive, 2 neutral or asking, 0 mixed, 2 critical, out of 4 comments about the project.

Idea: 0 for, 2 against

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positive neutral or mixed critical about another commenter or something else the maker

What HN said

What people liked

  • GUN persists data to disk by default on server, providing storage node for new clients

    From 1 comment
    • Ah, yes! Thank you for clarifying. (sorry for the late reply) This actually works out of the box, sorry if if this wasn't clear. When you run a gun server ( `npm start` or see…
      marknadal on HN

Objections

  • GUN server-side persistent storage was missing; commenters doubted GUN fits as a database

    From 2 comments
    • Is there an update on server-side persistent storage for gundb? This was the big missing piece the last time I looked at it.
      anilgulecha on HN
    • Was there ever a plan to build one? AFAIK gun never intended to fit more than the definition of its authors very broad interpretation of the term database.
      hobofan on HN
  • Storage engine performance is not yet satisfactory

    From 1 comment
    • We've added a couple more storage engines, like SQLite which should also be compatible with Postgres. However I'm not very satisfied with the performance of them or any of the…
      marknadal on HN

Requests

  • Server-side persistent storage node for GUN

    From 1 comment
    • Right now gun has multiclient offline-first capability. If the clients go away (and the data destroyed), there's no way of loading data on the new client. WHat I'm looking for is…
      anilgulecha on HN

Questions

  • Whether GUN has a server-side persistent storage option

    From 2 comments
    • Is there an update on server-side persistent storage for gundb? This was the big missing piece the last time I looked at it.
      anilgulecha on HN
    • Right now gun has multiclient offline-first capability. If the clients go away (and the data destroyed), there's no way of loading data on the new client. WHat I'm looking for is…
      anilgulecha on HN

Alternatives named

  • PouchDB with CouchDB

    From 2 comments
    • I was thinking a pouch-couch situation for offline-first usecase. Basically I'd use gun-gunserverside on multiple clients, and get sync free on the clients, when the clients come…
      anilgulecha on HN
    • Right now gun has multiclient offline-first capability. If the clients go away (and the data destroyed), there's no way of loading data on the new client. WHat I'm looking for is…
      anilgulecha on HN

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