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brillout / wildcard-api

wildcard-api

Functions as API.

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24Mentions
0Explicit recommenders
369GitHub stars
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Nov 8–Nov 15 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/15/2026, 10:01:16 PM UTC.

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HN mentions by month24 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2019-08-09 09:57:05 UTC to 2020-12-23 12:55:17 UTC.

02462019-08-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2019-09-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 0 submissions, 2 commentsAug 20192019-09-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2019-10-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 3 mentions; 0 submissions, 3 comments2019-10-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2019-11-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2019-11-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2019-12-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 6 mentions; 1 submissions, 5 comments2019-12-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 0 submissions, 2 comments2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-02-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 1 submissions, 1 comments2020-02-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-03-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 4 mentions; 0 submissions, 4 comments2020-03-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-04-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2020-04-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-05-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 3 mentions; 1 submissions, 2 commentsApr 20202020-05-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-06-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2020-06-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-07-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2020-07-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-08-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2020-08-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-09-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2020-09-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-10-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2020-10-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-11-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2020-11-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-12-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2020-12-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 1 submissions, 1 commentsDec 2020

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Aug 20192019-08-01 00:00:00 UTC2019-09-01 00:00:00 UTC202
Sep 20192019-09-01 00:00:00 UTC2019-10-01 00:00:00 UTC303
Oct 20192019-10-01 00:00:00 UTC2019-11-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Nov 20192019-11-01 00:00:00 UTC2019-12-01 00:00:00 UTC615
Dec 20192019-12-01 00:00:00 UTC2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC202
Jan 20202020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2020-02-01 00:00:00 UTC211
Feb 20202020-02-01 00:00:00 UTC2020-03-01 00:00:00 UTC404
Mar 20202020-03-01 00:00:00 UTC2020-04-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Apr 20202020-04-01 00:00:00 UTC2020-05-01 00:00:00 UTC312
May 20202020-05-01 00:00:00 UTC2020-06-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Jun 20202020-06-01 00:00:00 UTC2020-07-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Jul 20202020-07-01 00:00:00 UTC2020-08-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Aug 20202020-08-01 00:00:00 UTC2020-09-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Sep 20202020-09-01 00:00:00 UTC2020-10-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Oct 20202020-10-01 00:00:00 UTC2020-11-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Nov 20202020-11-01 00:00:00 UTC2020-12-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Dec 20202020-12-01 00:00:00 UTC2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC211

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Does someone know a tutorial for people like OP? Someone that knows programming but not modern web dev. I want to write such tutorial. > It's hard to build a mental model when things are happening at 4 level of abstractions away I feel you.. the JS ecosystem needs more guidance. I'm trying to do that with Reframe: https://github.com/reframejs/reframe. The goal of Reframe is to precisely to guide you through web dev and give you a good and simple start. It's new and work-in-progress though. Feel free to hit me up on discord (https://discord.gg/kqXf65G) if you have questions about web dev. I'm happy to help. Also, I'm looking for people to write such "modern frontend for backend developers" tutorial, if someone reading this would be up for it. ---- As for your questions: > What is a minimal set of JS/CSS frameworks, templating engine, deplo
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yment tools, IDE I need? If you need an SPA then I'd recommend https://github.com/parcel-bundler/parcel. There is also https://github.com/facebook/create-react-app which is super popular but I don't recommend it. (Because it's based on Weback and I believe that Parcel will eventually become the state of the art to build web assets.) If you need SSR then https://github.com/zeit/next.js. If you are not sure whether you need an SPA or SSR, let me know. I'm happy to elaborate. Another option is to use to the web framework I'm building (https://github.com/reframejs/reframe). The nice thing about it is that it allows you to build an SPA as well as an SSR app. And even better is that you can start with an SPA and easily switch to SSR later and vice versa. This means that you can start hacking today while later deciding whether SPA or SSR is right for you. So my (biased) recommendation would be to use Reframe. Although Reframe is new and if you're not an early adopter, then it's probably nothing for you right now. > a plethora of frameworks, transpiled languages, etc such as: Gulp, Typescript, JSX, Dart, Angular, React, Bootstrap, Babel, Wordpress, Drupal, Flutter, NPM, Web assembly, Vue.js, Minification of code before deploying, jQuery, and a gazillions others I recommend to start with the simplest setup possible and later decide if you want to add niceness to your stack. That is: JavaScript with Parcel, Next.js, or Reframe. You'll eventually realize over time what you need or not. And I wouldn't even start with bootstrap, instead I would use CSS flexbox. As for API between your frontend and backend you can use https://github.com/reframejs/wildcard-api. It's another thing I built and it's much much easier than GraphQL and REST. Which is neat to get up and running quickly. In a nutshell: start with minimalistic simple stack. You'll figure all the rest later while building your app. > Auth support (custom and Google OAuth) Just curious -- why do you need custom auth? Why not social login only?
In Ask HN: Modern day web development for someone who last did it 15 years ago
There are many JS libraries that are wonderfully simple. I think the problem is: - Too much choice; it's insane how much you have to decide before you get started: React or Vue? SSR or SPA? REST, GraphQL, or RPC? PostCSS or Sass? CSS-in-JS? What router? Redux or stateful components? Axios or Fetch API? Client-side rendering/routing or server-side rendering/routing? Webpack, Parcel, Create-react-app, Next.js, or Gastby? And the list goes on... I mean that's just nuts. - State management is inherently complicated; people don't realize that 90% of the case you don't need interactive / stateful views to build a product. People implement bunch of useless interactive "niceness" that are overkill because React allows them to. If you use React as an HTML template engine then React is actually super simple and super neat. How awesome would it be t
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o have a framework that has sensible defaults for all these questions. And that educates how to decide certain crucial aspects. For example: - Use plain old HTML instead of interactive views if you can. - Don't start with Redux. Instead, use Redux only after you know exactly why you need Redux. - Use a RPC-like API (e.g. https://github.com/reframejs/wildcard-api) and only use REST/GraphQL if you need to expose your data to third parties. - Use server-side rendering/routing if your app is mainly about content (a blog, a newspaper, a e-commerce shop, ...). - Use client-side rendering/routing if your app is mainly about user interactions (a music player, an email app, a graphical editor, ...). That's what I'm trying with Reframe: https://github.com/reframejs/reframe
In Why is modern web development so complicated?

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