What do you guys think, an easy way to save your website data
Hey guys,
This one is more for the devs
TL;DR: I created a very basic app where you could spin up an API to store some data from a website form (like contact form for example), without needing to create a backend API and database, or setting one up in the cloud.
As I said it's very basic, but would love to hear your thoughts, would you find this useful?
The problem I had:
I was frustrated with always having to find a way to store website data when working with a purely front-end framework. My options were usually:
Set up an API and database
Use cloud functions or SDKs
Hosting provider forms
So since all of these involve some effort, I searched for something that would be a bit quicker, and I couldn't find much.
I know about things like Google Forms etc, but I was looking for something without any UI, just purely a backend API that I could send data to.
Thanks
How do you retrieve the data programmatically?
How do you prevent people from adding data to your datastore? Are you basically not allowed to use this on the client?
Hey, thanks for taking the time to check it out.
There is a GET endpoint to read the data programmatically, and also the dashboard for viewing it in your browser.
Anyone that has the ID of your endpoint can add data (just like anyone can submit anything on a contact form or subscription list on a website). But they can't read the data because the read ID is different.
So the idea is that it is your API that you can add data to from a client, when you don't want to set something up in the cloud.
makes more sense now - maybe mention it in the homepage now :)