We currently make use of Supabase and it's been fantastic. It's enabled us to completely get away from having a traditional backend/API by utilizing RLS and it's realtime nature to have data directly in the UI. Rough numbers are showing we cut development time by a third vs a traditional approach.
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I understand that this is a hairy, messy problem they are solving, and that they traded off one aspect of the problem for another (Install order dependency! as a new "feature" in 2015!).
But I wish they had aimed higher. The better goal would be that the entire state of the node modules directory is a pure function of the contents of the package.json file plus the platform details (compiler used for native modules).
While they're at it, the ecosystem could be improved considerably if there was some sort of obvious "penalty" applied to any package that compiles native code, because such things cause considerable extra trouble for Windows users. A visible penalty, transitively carried up the dependency tree, would discourage use of such modules with native code; projects would use them (depend on them) only if absolutely necessary instead of accidentally, all over, all the time.
Aimed higher is correct. I've always wondered why no one looked at the way git does this under the covers and applied it to npm. A directed graph that points to (with a sym link or similar mechanism) the correct package version on the file system.
That way you have the best of both worlds - dependencies don't collide and a single copy of a package version on the file system in node_modules.
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It's a rest based API with a very thin library. We're working on Ruby, Python and Java as we speak. Which language are you working with, I can keep you posted as soon as we have the driver ready!
Do you have any documentation on the rest API at this point? Interested in rolling our own client library.