Anvil App Platform: Using GitHub as a Datastore
Anvil App Platform: Using GitHub as a Datastore
See how an app transforms GitHub into a mini database, perfect for storing less-than-essential documents.
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Join For FreeLiterally one day after the last blog post on Anvil (and their news announcement), Ian and Meredydd did a proof of concept that made Anvil retrieve/store data from/to GitHub. Specifically, it was a JSON document. You are not going to rest a transactional database on this design, financial or otherwise, but you might be super happy for a “Very Small Data” application. Or one that is for editing configuration — refer my Config as Code category.
On the Anvil Works site is a blog post about it. That blog entry details what/how they've done this ultimately very simple thing. They don’t show the diff, though. In a technology that is using SCM as a data store, after bumping the HEAD revision of a document programmatically, you’re going to want to check out the change you just made:
"Yay!" indeed.
As well as dealing with GitHub’s APIs for working with documents (as data), it’d be great to see these guys enhance their own Git capability for storage, and add index/view APIs for a mini-CouchDB experience.
This type of solutioning is going to be part of a wave of cheaper internal enterprise apps again, and maybe also apps online for strangers where cheap data capture is more important that a 100% ‘just so’ UI experience.
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