Hi Sven and all, Disclaimer: just another rather not important query (mainly for fun so donât hesitate to tell me to use the node packages instead ;-) ) To show API to students, I sometimes use https://jsonplaceholder.typicode.com. Itâs nice to play with client requests. I wonder if this would be interesting to have such tools in Pharo/Zn. Maybe it exists already somehow (for Teapot eventually) ? https://medium.com/codingthesmartway-com-blog/create-a-rest-api-with-json-se...
From their GitHub, I discovered json-server + lowdb (based on lowdash) => all nodes packages. https://github.com/typicode.
It uses a db file db.json and I like such simple « databases ». I know they're not real db. https://github.com/typicode/lowdb To me, it could nearly be to me an elegant personal db even if I think this is mostly used to test APIâs. Indeed, Itâs often used in conjunction with node package faker (https://github.com/marak/Faker.js/ (https://github.com/marak/Faker.js/). I would like to use that to generate static websites from Ecstatic. The placeholder default website has limitations. For instance, the following request creates a new post (but then you cannot see the result if you query for posts just after) I wanted to go past the limitation of the placeholder site (the db.json cannot be written). I can of course use the node package but you know :) Might be not so straight to port though. So there are probably three open questions in this post: 1) lowdb (I know this is not a database but itâs handy and Iâd like such usage in static website generation in conjunction with Ecstatic). Any already existing experiments maybe ? I donât think Voyage can do that. 2) the API json-server based on routes (maybe a job for Teapot) ? 3) the faker package as a fun exercice. What others think ? My priority would go for having some kind of lowdb (and Iâm pretty sure there are experiments around that - It reminds me a bit sandstonedb from Ramon http://onsmalltalk.com/sandstonedb-simple-activerecord-style-persistence-in-.... Cheers, Cédrick
