[rockmeamedee]

Idk man. It's a nice idea, but it has to be 10x better than what we currently have to overcome the ecosystem advantages of the existing tech. In practice, people in the frontend world already use Apollo/Relay/Tanstack Query to do data caching and querying, and don't worry too much about the occasional overfetching/unoptimized-ness of the setup. If they need to do a complex join they write a custom API endpoint for it. It works fine. Everyone here is very wary of a "magic data access layer" that will fix all of our problems. Serverless turned out to be a nightmare because it only partially solves the problem.

At the same time, I had a great time developing on Meteorjs a decade ago, which used Mongo on the backend and then synced the DB to the frontend for you. It was really fluid. So I look forward to things like this being tried. In the end though, Meteor is essentially dead today, and there's nothing to replace it. I'd be wary of depending so fully on something so important. Recently Faunadb (a "serverless database") went bankrupt and is closing down after only a few years.

I see the product being sold is pitched as a "relational version of firebase", which I think good idea. It's a good idea for starter projects/demos all the way up to medium-sized apps, (and might even scale further than firebase by being relational), but it's not "The Future" of all app development.

Also, I hate to be that guy but the SQL in example could be simpler, when aggregating into JSON it's nice to use a LATERAL join which essentially turns the join into a for loop and synthesises rows "on demand":

  SELECT g.*, 
         COALESCE(t.todos, '[]'::json) as todos
  FROM goals g
  LEFT JOIN LATERAL (
    SELECT json_agg(t.*) as todos
    FROM todos t
    WHERE t.goal_id = g.id
  ) t ON true

That still proves the author's point that SQL is a very complicated tool, but I will say the query itself looks simpler (only 1 join vs 2 joins and a group by) if you know what you're doing.

[timita]

> Meteor is essentially dead today

Care to explain what you mean by "dead"? Just today v3.2 came out, and the company, the community, and their paid-for hosting service seem pretty alive to me.