I'm about to build out my API for my service and I'm wondering if there are any benefits to building it out using the NextJS API integration. It seems a little quirky for my own preferences and the resources aren't as exhaustive as they are for my ideal solution: expressJS. That said I'm aware there are some integrations that would allow me to use express inside the NextJS API but that seems excessive compared to standing up a separate repo for my express API.
So, I'm curious are there any under-the-hood benefits or perks to leveraging the NextJS API within the same repository as the rest of my code?
Thanks!
It depends on your application. Truth is probably a good portion of websites and projects just need a simple request server-side to retrieve data. Having Next.js API helps manages your serverless functions. You could easily do it with AWS's Lambdas and API gateway but the management of many serverless functions can get messy. You can also use CLI tools but Next.js with Now and Netlify can automatically do all this during build/CI/CD.
Under the hood is an AWS Lambda, so the usual can be an issue...cold starts, computing resources. But great for things like accessing private APIs, lower on-demand costs, and development as functions. If its heavy computational data, I would avoid using serverless and just spin up your own separate service. But the plumbing is all the same as an Express or KOA server, its just on-demand and a tool to manage. I just see it as a really easy and simple tool to do a little bit of backend work without maintaining infrastructure.
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I've just one question, can I make separate server app (backend) with GraphQL API for my Next.JS app (frontend)? I clearly understand technical part of such implementation, but what about supporting Next.JS advantages (for example ability of deploying on Vercel)?
In my opinion, this approach will support all things which available for normal Next.JS app with API Routes (api/graphql), I just make my own API (like very very small GraphCMS), but may be I missed something.
Thanks in advance for all your opinions!
I want to know if web development can be done using Raku or Perl6?
Like Django for Python, do we have any framework available for Raku?
Id appreciate if you told us which are the libraries available or any tutorial.
Are there any webhosting providers to host Raku web application?
Many folks are using Cro for this. It's a set of libraries that you can pick as needed (and not just for web development), but offers things like:
Routing requests to handlers, and neat ways to express those handlers
WebSocket support integrated neatly into the router
Templating
Testing
There's a simple tutorial as well as a much longer one on making a SPA.
There is also a fresh CRUD server-side tutorial available.
Finally, there's integrated support in the Comma IDE, which includes a Cro project template where you can select the bits you need, indexing of and navigation to routes, and a timeline view that can be used to understand where time is spent during request processing.
There are base images available to support Docker deployment also, to anywhere that supports that.
I built a web framework for Raku called Humming-Bird it's brand new so there are still kinks to work out, but the core works really well! It is intended to be very similar to Sinatra and other frameworks of that style (express.js etc..)
Humming-Bird has most of the typical features of a web framework including but not limited to:
Routing
Middleware
Serving static files
This project is still in fairly early stages, but it offers more than enough to spin up simple web services, and web apps.
I'm planing on creating an native .net app for Windows as well as a native OSX application with swift.
These two applications should be able to communicate with the same server. With that I mean writing and reading from the same SQL Database, and have REST communication with the server.
Now I'm struggling to come up with a solution for the backend. I'm looking into Serverless backends like Azure or Google Cloud, but I'm not sure that I can use these Services with both my applications. Both Azure and Google Cloud have SDKs for .Net but I've never found one for Swift or Objective-C.
Are there such Services that allow me to communicate or should I just develop my own?
Do you have any good solutions for my problem? Or what is the best server architecture to use for this kind of problem? Any inputs are appreciated!
If your servers vend a REST API, no vendor SDKs should be required. REST is platform- and vendor-agnostic. All you need is an HTTP client, which Swift/ObjC most definitely do have. I use a serverless (AWS Lambda) setup from Swift, and it's easy. Though, I have done this kind of thing before :)
What I would do is setup a simple test server, and expose an API endpoint. Make sure you can reach it with curl from your machine. Then, take a look at the NSURLSession APIs in Foundation. They'll help you make an HTTP request similar to what curl can do. From there, you'll need to investigate serialization (like JSON), which Swift can also do easily (as of Swift 4, I believe).
Good luck!
I've programmed a lot in asp.net mvc web applications. Now I want to write cross-platform mobile applications with cordova for the frontend and azure for the backend.
I am in doubt whether to use azure mobile services or WebAPI, because I want the power and freedom of WebAPI, but the convenience of azure mobile services. I do not understand concepts such as authentication, push notifications, etc.
My main goal is to focus on the application logic, frontend and backend with a significant weight of that logic in the backend. For this I have great doubts.
1st. I see both good mechanisms in AMS and WebAPI for external authentication, but not to manage your own authentication. What is the best way to manage your own authentication? Is Azure Active Directory solution?
2nd My intention is to create a well-defined API methods that return the exact data (json), rather than a rest api queryable (odata).
Wich is te best for this, WebAPI or AMS?
3rd I have experience with SQL Server, its relationships and Entity framework, but I do not care to learn and use NoSQL technologies, which is better? (However, I'm not comfortable with I can not use many to many relationships in NoSql).
Thank you very much.
there is not a real general answer for that, so take these as advices.
At first, keep in mind that AMS and WebApi are not so far. An AMS project IS a WebApi project with some helpers inside to make you comfortable working with related services (push notification, table entities), but you will lose a bit of control on your application.
The choice depends on your needs
Azure Active Directory IS a solution, but there are a lot more. You can use your preferred framework. AMS has got a pretty integrated login with most known social network and azure active directory as well, and is very easy to set up.
I'd suggest AMS. It will be easier to setup and mantain.
AMS is just WebApi castrated. To get all these services easier for you, you cannot for example
Customize startup of your application
Use a dependency injection framework
Run background tasks
And other stuff like that.
Hope it helps!
What would be a good way to provide a non-trivial backend for mobile apps, regarding both the protocol used for communication, and the actual hosting?
Most backend platforms (such as parse.com) provides some basic API for performing trivial CRUD data operations, but if the server logic needs to be more complex than that, what would be a good strategy (preferably .NET/C#, secondarily JAVA, but not javascript or any custom scripting approached)? SOAP web services (for example WCF)?
Regarding hosting, I have looked at Azure and AppHarbor, but can't decide between the two. AppHarbor seems like the only place to co-locate the web server and a MongoDB instance in Northern Europe, as Azure (apparently) only provides MongoDB in a US region. Any suggestions?