Show HN: Minisync gives your web app its own relational backend-as-a-service

Hi, one of the authors here. We realized that for many CRUD web apps, a library that lets you synchronize &quot;diffsets&quot; (lists of changes the client makes to JavaScript objects) can replace server-side controllers and views, so you don&#x27;t end up doing MVC on both the server and client.<p>We reduced web apps to a set of authorization rules and models. You can interact with document-style objects on the client, but keep the power of relational datastores on the server.<p>It&#x27;s a relational Firebase for CRUD apps, if you will.<p>Would love to get some feedback. Thanks!

Am I right that this sounds like the equivalent of an operational transformation solution that can resolve to SQL DML statements? Did you at all consider using the same wire format as something like ShareJS?

This is very interesting. It actually strikes me as quite similar to React.js; in both cases, the mantra is &quot;replace explicit boilerplate with an intelligent diff algorithm&quot;.<p>Yes, this means performance isn&#x27;t as good, but does that really matter? It eliminates an entire _class_ of programming errors in one fell stroke. Higher productivity and less chance for things to go wrong? Sign me up.