Postgres.js VS SQLPage - Build SQL-only websites

I want to use this as a chance to bring attention to a GitHub issue that I think would help reduce friction for Neon: https://github.com/neondatabase/neon/issues/4989. Having run a local dev environment connected to Neon and tests connected to Neon got in our way of adoption. We'd prefer to develop and run tests against a regular Postgres localhost database. To the PMs of Neon, put yourself in the shoes of a new... - Source: Hacker News / 18 days ago

I'd push you to consider using postgres, slonik or similar for database queries. With these libraries, you just write SQL, but they perform input sanitization for you. So you can safely write:. Source: 5 months ago

There's also https://kysely.dev/ but personally I handwrite my queries with https://github.com/porsager/postgres for flexibility and performance most orms use node-pg lib which has shit performance. - Source: Hacker News / 7 months ago

When viewed as a DSL for set theory, views, CTEs, set-returning functions, et al are indeed proper first-class query abstractions. When viewed through the lens of general purpose imperative or functional programming languages, it's easy to see how it can be seen as falling short. I'll admit much of the tooling and driver APIs leave a lot to be desired. Some tools do make good efforts though such as nested... - Source: Hacker News / 8 months ago

Demonstrate how easily and accidentally one can make an SQL injection with these: https://github.com/porsager/postgres. - Source: Hacker News / 10 months ago

Saving a few clicks for readers: Project page: https://sql.ophir.dev/. - Source: Hacker News / about 2 months ago

I am currently looking for a solution to run automated tests on a sql website generator I am working on ( https://sql.ophir.dev ) I wanted to use hurl (https://hurl.dev/), but Bruno's UI seems to be useful while developing the tests... Has someone tried both ? Which is better for automated testing, including when the response type is html and not json? - Source: Hacker News / about 2 months ago

Full fledged BI tools like Superset and Metabase are amazing for their intended use cases. But they may be an overkill if your primary use case is to infrequently build semi-interactive reports for non-technical end-users and your use cases are are mostly covered by standard graphs & tables. Esp. So if you are familiar with SQL and have access to the underlying data source. Two nifty utilities I have found to be... - Source: Hacker News / 2 months ago

I feel obligated to add a shameless plug here. The idea is very close to a project I presented at pgconf.eu last week: SQLPage https://sql.ophir.dev/ SQLPage has the same goal as postgrest+htmx, but is a little bit higher level. It let's you build your application using prepackaged components you can invoke directly from SQL, without having to write any HTML, CSS, or JS. - Source: Hacker News / 5 months ago

I have been thinking about that a lot recently. Where I work, we spend a very small fraction of our time on building things that are unique to our business. Maybe we are doing something very wrong, but I am under the impression that most of the code that gets written is extremely low-entropy. This low-entropy, repetitive coding is not limited to the user interfaces. We do tend to describe the same structures and... - Source: Hacker News / 6 months ago