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by fiznool 1546 days ago
I was about to ask how you manage to support so many different language bindings, then I noticed that you’ve built an ‘SDK generator’ [1]. Very cool! I’ve not come across this concept before - how does it work?

[1] https://github.com/appwrite/sdk-generator
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eldad_fux 1546 days ago
We use twig templating syntax as an agnostic language that allow contributors from different coding backgrounds to help us build the SDK templates. Then we use our API spec file to auto-generate the source code and push the relevant code to the SDK repos and package manager, it works really well and help us maintain a big amount of SDKs with little overhead after the core templates are done. We actually plan to have a talk about, it's really cool!
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fiznool 1545 days ago
Awesome job. I guess the API spec file is key to this! I see from the repo that you use swagger.

Best of luck with the project - as others have noted, this is a space ripe for improvement given the success of the closed source incumbent that is Firebase. I still mourn the loss of Parse!

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