Biff
Dev tools
web framework
SHOW HN2020
103points
19comments
#631of 3,028 in 2020
Top 21%of 2020 by points
How HN took it
CuriousMostly questions and neutral comments
3 positive, 8 neutral or asking, 0 mixed, 0 critical, out of 11 comments about the project. Thread score +0.14.
Design: 1 for, 0 against
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What people liked
Good design and well-explained key decisions
From 2 comments
I could not find this info in the docs or the faq: Is Biff suitable for a Javascript front end? is there an API for a plain JS frontend to use Biff? (I like clojure backends with…
raphar on HNVery interesting! I think the biggest weak points of firebase are a. a weak query engine (as soon as you reach non-trivial complexity you end up having to de-normalize data) and…
stopachka on HN
Addresses Firebase's weak query and rule engines
From 1 comment
Very interesting! I think the biggest weak points of firebase are a. a weak query engine (as soon as you reach non-trivial complexity you end up having to de-normalize data) and…
stopachka on HN
Requests
A plain JavaScript frontend API for Biff
From 1 comment
I could not find this info in the docs or the faq: Is Biff suitable for a Javascript front end? is there an API for a plain JS frontend to use Biff? (I like clojure backends with…
raphar on HN
Questions
Whether Biff suits a plain JS frontend
From 1 comment
I could not find this info in the docs or the faq: Is Biff suitable for a Javascript front end? is there an API for a plain JS frontend to use Biff? (I like clojure backends with…
raphar on HN
How the rule engine knows entity types on Crux
From 1 comment
Cool! Two noob qs: 1. Would love to learn a bit more about how the rule engine works. From what I understand crux in essence only gives you key->blob semantics. How do you know…
stopachka on HN
Why datalog subscriptions are hard
From 1 comment
Cool! Two noob qs: 1. Would love to learn a bit more about how the rule engine works. From what I understand crux in essence only gives you key->blob semantics. How do you know…
stopachka on HN
Alternatives named
Firebase
From 1 comment
Hi, Biff author here. There's background info + comparison to Firebase in the link, but to briefly summarize: I've been doing Clojure web dev for a while but hadn't found a setup…
jacobobryant on HN
Prismatic
From 1 comment
Interesting... side question, Are you trying to make Findka something like the old Prismatic?
djKianoosh on HN
Datomic
From 1 comment
Crux was a pretty straightforward choice. Didn't really consider any non-datalog DBs. I've used Datomic quite a bit, but preferred crux since it's open source, has filesystem…
jacobobryant on HN
Datahike
From 1 comment
Looks interesting! Was Crux an easy choice? Did you consider any other databases (non-Datalog)? Or Datahike?
dorian-graph on HN