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nitrictech / nitric

nitric

Nitric is a multi-language framework for cloud applications with infrastructure from code.

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Nitric is a multi-language framework for cloud applications with infrastructure from code.

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Observed mentions: 2022-03-31 04:59:27 UTC to 2024-11-07 23:59:41 UTC.

012342022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 0 submissions, 2 comments20222023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments20232024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 4 mentions; 1 submissions, 3 comments2024

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20242024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC413

What Hacker News says

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In Ask HN: Current best open-source or commercial automated LLM coding agent?
Just one data point: This is the first time I've ever heard of nitric, and I was unfortunately pretty confused by the website :( "Next Generation Cloud Development" on a standard "modern SaaS" lookalike template... is it a webhost? A cloud code space like Codesandbox? Then I read "Nitric is an open source framework with building blocks for modern apps". I thought it was some sort of UI kit, like MUI.com. But then it said "Build for any platform with APIs, Storage, Databases, Functions, Messaging, and more", and I thought wait, maybe not, maybe something more like Vercel/Next that whitelabels a bunch of other SaaSes and combines them into a framework? So it's another JS framework...? But I kept scrolling and the first code example is something called a "greeter" (what's that?), which returns shapes. Huh? It's a drawing lib API...? The diag
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ram made things even less clear because it showed actual shapes flowing over the wire. Is it generating a SVG...? But no, the next example is a database... migration...? That shows... a user being added, but returns a table? Thoroughly confused now =/ An I migrating a schema, adding a user, or querying a table? At this point I still didn't know what the actual service was... Then the storage example was also confusing, not showing any way to specify the cloud being used (is there a cloud?), where the image comes from (what is imageData), and what is .file... is it a filename, is it a blob of some sort that's being overwritten, what is a "profile" anyway, and why can I define its permissions at the same time I'm writing to it...? And still not clear what this service even is. Fortunately, then I found the Github link at the top: https://github.com/nitrictech/nitric THAT was much clearer, IMO. "Easy infrastructure from code". Aha. So it's an infrastructure orchestration system that spins up and manages cloud services from code? That instantly made sense. To me as a dev, something like "Orchestrate cloud infrastructure directly in code. Any cloud, same syntax." would be a lot clearer than "Next generation cloud development... building blocks for modern apps", which can mean anything from a web host to a UI lib to a nocode platform to an IDE, etc. Maybe I'm just over-literal, but I honestly couldn't tell what the home page was trying to say... for a while, I actually thought it was a placeholder page for some generic SaaS example, not an actual product. Everything was too abstract that I didn't think they were real examples. In my mind, the service is something like a Dockerfile or CI/CD pipeline or Lando.dev – something that abstracts essential services in a provider-neutral way, and in code instead of config – but I didn't get that at all until I read the Github. I get that you're probably trying to make the home page examples super concise and simple, but without seeing a realistic workflow, it was really hard to understand what was supposed to be happening. For example, having a realistic API example that does something relatively normal (authenticate a user, or send an email, or query a DB or whatever) would be way clearer than a "greeter" that returns a "square". I think that some before/after comparisons might help too, e.g. "here's what uploading a new file looks like in nitric, vs using the AWS/Azure/GCP SDKs directly". Like an apples-to-apples comparison of what it'd take to spin up an account, manage the permissions, provision the instances, wait for them to boot, see their status, specify the tokens, convert some binary blob, upload it, see the results, etc. I hope that didn't sound harsh? I was trying to share my actual impression as a first-time user, which was confusion followed by eventual understanding following by "this is actually pretty cool... I hope it gets more popular/stable!"
In Ask HN: Looking for Feedback on Website
In my opinion, AWS can be challenging for developers who are not familiar with cloud. The main issue is that it's not very user-friendly to fully utilize all the features of AWS through the Management Console alone. Here are some specific challenges: 1. Constantly switching between different components can cause frequent context switches, making it harder to work efficiently. 2. AWS offers a wide range of capabilities, and developers may struggle with figuring out how to effectively combine them in real-world scenarios. 3. There are many concepts and security restrictions within AWS, such as IAM, which adds complexity to the learning curve. To make the most of what AWS has to offer, developers need to invest time in studying extensive documentation and even learn Infrastructure as Code. Unfortunately, this can slow down the implementation
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of innovative ideas. Fortunately, there are a few new tools that can help address these problems. For instance: - Plutolang: https://github.com/pluto-lang/pluto - Winglang: https://github.com/winglang/wing - Nitric: https://github.com/nitrictech/nitric
In Ask HN: Is the AWS console developers friendly?
We've been using Pulumi in the nitric framework https://github.com/nitrictech/nitric for a while now. Originally, we used native solutions like CloudFormation, then looked at options like Terraform. Pulumi ended up being our favorite by far. The docs are awesome and using the features of a language + editor you're already familiar with are pretty appealing. Autocomplete, typesafety, automated testing, etc. make it really productive.
In Pulumi Infrastructure as Code Goes Universal
Hey HackerNews, We’ve been working on a framework for applications that run on serverless compute like AWS Lambda, Google CloudRun and Azure Containers Apps, but remain portable from a single codebase, reducing vendor lock-in. We also provide an SDK and deployment for common services including blob storage, topics, queues, secrets, document collections and APIs. The services are all deployed via Pulumi and run using the managed services of each cloud. Each of the services we support has concrete implementations provided as plugins, so we can expand to more cloud platforms, alternative services or even Kubernetes environments in future. For example, right now we support SNS, EventGrid and PubSub for events. The source code is all on GitHub: https://github.com/nitrictech/nitric
In Show HN: Nitric – An open-source framework for serverless apps without lock-in

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