Orbit.js – A standalone library for data access and synchronization

https://github.com/cerebris/orbit.js

by jauco • 13 years ago

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welder• 13 years ago

Kinda cool, but an example of when something like this is necessary would be nice.

The docs should start with: Why do I need this?

dgeb2• 13 years ago

Hi, I'm the developer of Orbit, which I created to enable advanced features in client-side apps such as offline mode, synchronization of local caches, undo / redo stacks, and ad hoc editing contexts. These features require a systematic approach to accessing and transforming data in multiple data sources.

Stay tuned - I'm currently working on an introductory blog post as well as detailed docs and an example app.

Edit: I just updated the readme with essentially the same use cases I mentioned above.

desireco42• 13 years ago

Maybe you should consider naming it differently, as my first thought was that it has something to do with Zurb's Orbit.js

ing33k• 13 years ago

an example app would be awesome !

limsup• 13 years ago

hey it looks cool. i'm looking forward to the blog post. would love to see examples of killer techniques this enables. the readme is rather dense.

kibibu• 13 years ago

We really need a library/software name registry of some form.

http://foundation.zurb.com/docs/components/orbit.html

thatthatis• 13 years ago

[domain]-descriptor-[giberish]

In this case: js-synchronized-orbits

Or, renamed for the JavaScript pattern: SynchronizedOrbit.js or orbsync.js

If we all followed this pattern, it would be nice to then have a registry for [domain]-[giberish] pairs, but really we can get away without one for a very long time.

A few examples: Django-registration becomes django-registration-valet Django-Facebook becomes django-facebook-elite Django-zebra becomes django-stripe-zebra (they have the giberish part but are hard to discover by googling the problem because they don't have the descriptor)

rtfeldman• 13 years ago

Love it! I actually developed an ad-hoc version of this for use in a personal project (I was syncing to local IndexedDB, the local browser's Filesystem API, and a server endpoint), and would have loved to have had this already.

killing_time• 13 years ago

Pretty cool stuff! I think it's great that this lib is designed with extensibility in mind rather than being tightly coupled to any particular data store. I can see this being very useful for offline sync and reactive UI projects.

Orbit.js – A standalone library for data access and synchronization

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