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Hook – Open-source Back end as a Service (github.com)
22 points by endel 4244 days ago
2 comments
nlh 4244 days ago
At the risk of sounding like a fool, I offer the following:

I've looked at the Github page, read the README, and skimmed the documentation....

...and I still have _absolutely_ no idea what this does or what its intended purpose is. None whatsoever.

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endel 4244 days ago
Hi nlh,

There is a how-to-use section on the client-side, which is one of the best parts: https://github.com/doubleleft/hook-javascript#how-to-use

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sanswork 4244 days ago
From what I can see it is a set of common functions wrapped in an API you can use from your front end application. I don't know what all those functions are however email and auth appear to be two of them.

https://github.com/doubleleft/hook/wiki/About explains it.

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euphemize 4244 days ago
Also pretty confused as to what this does. There's a few examples and sample code for initialization, but I have no idea what the use cases are, what type of "backends" I could build with this, how it's better/different than popular existing frameworks, etc.
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endel 4244 days ago
Here is an explanation of this backend approach http://nobackend.org/
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Twirrim 4244 days ago
Certainly confused me.

That README.md could do with a few examples of the things that it can provide, and what value it's providing in that way versus writing it myself.

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poseid 4243 days ago
the main purpose of a backend is the access to data... e.g. like Firebase. For open-source approaches, ArangoDB Foxx looks more intersting with this regard: https://www.arangodb.com/foxx
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