Encore
Dev tools
backend framework
SHOW HN2021
182points
69comments
#258of 2,533 in 2021
Top 11%of 2021 by points
How HN took it
CuriousMostly questions and neutral comments
5 positive, 20 neutral or asking, 1 mixed, 10 critical, out of 36 comments about the project. Thread score -0.10.
Design: 2 for, 4 againstIdea: 0 for, 5 against
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What HN said
What people liked
Developer experience is well thought out and productive
From 2 comments
We built a conference management system using an early release of Encore this past winter, and it was an amazing experience. I can absolutely recommend you check it out if you're…
bketelsen on HNI kinda like this a lot. Raw SQL in the examples. And generated and consumable api services. I will surely play with this later.
gigatexal on HN
Auto-generated APIs and raw SQL look neat
From 1 comment
I kinda like this a lot. Raw SQL in the examples. And generated and consumable api services. I will surely play with this later.
gigatexal on HN
Objections
Code generation and magic take control away from the developer
From 3 comments
This looks neat, but man. I'm not a fan of code generation magic. It's part of the reason I moved away from the Rails ecosystem - even though I knew what Rails was doing under…
dhagz on HNI don't think it is. It's fundamentally taking the code out of your control. With my services all the code is there, we can tweak it if necessary, we're not tied to a framework,…
Philip-J-Fry on HN> it seems like unnecessary complexity, something I strive to avoid. This. Adding complexity to reduce boilerplate seems like the wrong direction to go in (pun intended). I like…
marcus_holmes on HN
Too much scope: looks like a platform, not a framework
From 2 comments
This looks neat, but man. I'm not a fan of code generation magic. It's part of the reason I moved away from the Rails ecosystem - even though I knew what Rails was doing under…
dhagz on HNI've built my fair share of Go microservices and have never felt the need to develop an entire framework like this. We have everything like CI/CD, distributed tracing and one…
Philip-J-Fry on HN
Unnecessary complexity compared to simple Go boilerplate
From 2 comments
I've built my fair share of Go microservices and have never felt the need to develop an entire framework like this. We have everything like CI/CD, distributed tracing and one…
Philip-J-Fry on HN> it seems like unnecessary complexity, something I strive to avoid. This. Adding complexity to reduce boilerplate seems like the wrong direction to go in (pun intended). I like…
marcus_holmes on HN
Marketing language is hyperbolic
From 1 comment
I'm sure this is awesome but do we really need phrases like "state of the art developer experience" giving you "unmatched productivity"? Is this the new normal? Do people feel…
hnarn on HN
Requests
Support for deploying to own infrastructure via containers
From 1 comment
This looks neat, but man. I'm not a fan of code generation magic. It's part of the reason I moved away from the Rails ecosystem - even though I knew what Rails was doing under…
dhagz on HN
Websocket and WebRTC examples or support
From 1 comment
This looks pretty awesome! I'd love to see an example using websockets. I've used Go for websockets in the past but find the boilerplate-to-custom code ratio isn't great. Knowing…
lux on HN
Pub/sub and message queue integration
From 2 comments
Looks quite interesting to me. The telemetry and tracing aspects are cool I think. That sort of thing is a 'must have' really but I find it is quite a pain to manage the tools…
ideas-are-cheap on HNIs it possible to integrate this with event based systems or message queues or is encore not made to be integrated into existing service landscapes anyways?
domano on HN
Questions
How does it integrate with existing systems and event sources
From 2 comments
Looks quite interesting to me. The telemetry and tracing aspects are cool I think. That sort of thing is a 'must have' really but I find it is quite a pain to manage the tools…
ideas-are-cheap on HNIs it possible to integrate this with event based systems or message queues or is encore not made to be integrated into existing service landscapes anyways?
domano on HN
How are retries and backoff handled
From 1 comment
The page didn't mention retries, exponential back off, etc. Is there somewhere where it shows how that sort of thing is handled?
tyingq on HN
How are distributed transactions handled
From 1 comment
Curious - how do you end up handling transactions that span services? I'm getting into go, but there doesn't seem to be a great pattern for this. Used to @Transactional on the…
ashtar on HN
Whether it compares to Kubernetes and Terraform workflows
From 2 comments
Looks interesting. How do the infrastructure layer features (deployment, cloud resource management) compare to the open source alternatives? If I am already using Kubernetes and…
wskinner on HN> We grew frustrated with the disproportionally large effort needed to build even simple backend applications, and created Encore to solve this problem. I'm going to sound naive…
MuffinFlavored on HN
Alternatives named
go-kit
From 1 comment
Any ideas how this compares with [go-kit](https://github.com/go-kit/kit)? I like how go-kit's transport not just JSON and HTTP (e.g. gRPC and protobufs are supported).
itake on HN
Goa
From 1 comment
This seems very similar to https://goa.design/? Did you know it exists?
Gys on HN
Dapr
From 1 comment
Is this something like https://dapr.io/?
ceesharp on HN
Rails
From 1 comment
This looks neat, but man. I'm not a fan of code generation magic. It's part of the reason I moved away from the Rails ecosystem - even though I knew what Rails was doing under…
dhagz on HN