A Principled Approach to Querying Data – A Type-Safe Search DSL

by kioku on 4/24/2025, 3:53:15 PM with 18 comments

  • by fire_lake on 4/24/2025, 6:35:10 PM

    > Users expect near-native responsiveness, even when offline

    Do they? I think users are amazed if anything works without internet with modern applications.

  • by FrustratedMonky on 4/24/2025, 4:08:33 PM

    Seems a lot like FSharp Type Providers? Is that a good analogy?

  • by williamcotton on 4/25/2025, 11:58:34 AM

    I've got a similar project that includes a React component for the search input. The React component is actually a Monaco text editor so you get syntax highlighting, error highlighting, tab completion and more.

    Check it out here: https://github.com/williamcotton/search-input-query

    There's an animated GIF of the demo so you can get a very quick idea of how it works!

  • by gitroom on 4/25/2025, 2:28:26 AM

    Nice, Ive bounced around between Prisma and Kysely too. I get nervous about locking too much into one thing, you ever worry if leaning on too much codegen or magic ends up biting you down the road?

  • by tehlike on 4/24/2025, 9:37:53 PM

    LINQ or PRQL.

  • by hu3 on 4/24/2025, 4:03:41 PM

    Looks good.

    For a more database specific, type-safe, data querying solution, I like to use https://kysely.dev

  • by mifydev on 4/24/2025, 5:29:10 PM

    The same should apply to configuration, we have prisma for sql, we should have something like this for JSONs, like https://typeconf.dev (I’m one of the founders)