Pain point · API & developer experience · Blocks work
PostgREST API judged too basic compared to writing SQL
1 source thread · first seen 2024-04
Summary
The auto-generated PostgREST API felt far less capable than plain SQL, making a simple two-form app a big pain and leaving the user unsure of the use case for a front-end-only backend.
- Affects
- Developer building a front-end-only app
- Workaround
- Direct SQL connection or a Rails app
- Switched to or considered
- Rails on Heroku
Evidence
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“PostGREST is very very basic and far less powerful than just writing SQL”