ramparameswaran/pensify

Note-taking app for thinkers, planners and workers.

pensify's Issues

Migrate to Mongo Realm serverless architecture and GraphQL

I'm excited to try out the Mongo Realm serverless platform. Pensify is a perfect use-case for it, and it will accelerate development by removing the need for a backend.

The Realm platform is a MongoDB database, but performs authentication and data access controls internally at the DB-level.

• Old method - A user requests data; the frontend makes a HTTP request to a backend; the backend checks auth and access permissions, the backend queries the DB, the backend returns the payload to the frontend. The backend is tedious layer which requires duplicating logic all over the place 👎
• Realm method - A user requests data; the frontend calls Mongo Realm cloud platform directly; Realm checks auth and access permissions, Realm returns the payload to the frontend. Realm even provides an Auth service with pre-built hooks for social-auth! ✌️✌️✌️

More exciting is Mongo Realm Sync, which is an offline-first database design. It manages a local-db at the device level, which asynchronously syncs with the cloud DB when an internet connection is available. It handles data serialization, network recovery and conflict resolution all at the DB-level. This is amazing!
Unfortunately, Realm Sync is not available as part of the web-SDK - but it is nonetheless a good capability for the eventual Pensify react-native app.