alt Hacker NewsWe have been moving to localized cache stores and there aren't any client side loaders anymore outside of the initial cache generation. Think like Linear, Figma, etc
It just depends on what you are after. You can completely drop the backend, apis, and have a real time web socketed sync layer that goes direct to the database. There is a row based permissions layer still here for security but you get the idea.
The client experience is important in our app and a backend just slows us down we have found.
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veqq • last Saturday at 10:54 PM
> We have been moving to localized cache stores and there aren't any client side loaders anymore outside of the initial cache generation. Think like Linear, Figma, etc.
That's never the case.
>and have a real time web socketed sync layer that goes direct to the database
you might be able to drop a web router but pretending this is "completely drop[ping] the backend" is silly. Something is going to have to manage connections to the DB and you're not -- I seriously hope -- literally going to expose your DB socket to the wider Internet. Presumably you will have load balancing, DB replicas, and that sort of thing, as your scale increases.
This is setting aside just how complex managing a DB is. "completely drop the backend" except the most complicated part of it, sure. Minor details.