Ask HN: Lesser-known/underrated cool new web-oriented tech?

10 points by lambdaba 1y ago ↗ HN

I've been surveying the space lately and I re/discovered some really powerful new-ish tech which woke up my tech taste buds and am now looking for more such "tasty" tech (sorry I guess I'm due for a meal soon :P)

Example as starters:

- Qwik and resumable web apps (https://qwik.dev/)

- SurrealDB, maximally flexible multi-model DB w/ realtime capabilities (https://surrealdb.com/)

There are others, but I'm trying to keep to the starkest examples and not to influence the discussion too much.

I do think this is the best place to ask such questions - I'm explicitly interested in cutting-edge tech, but the edge doesn't have to be excessively sharp ;).

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ilrwbwrkhv 1y ago ↗

I have been a big fan of Pocketbase. Single, portable go binary for a whole PaaS.

https://pocketbase.io/

karencarits 1y ago ↗

I think Atomic Data is a pretty cool project in the linked data/knowledge graph space

> Atomic Data is a modular specification for sharing, modifying and modeling graph data. It combines the ease of use of JSON, the connectivity of RDF (linked data) and the reliability of type-safety.

> AtomicServer is an open source, powerful graph database + headless CMS. It's the reference implementation for the Atomic Data specification, written in Rust

Demo: https://atomicdata.dev/

GitHub: https://github.com/atomicdata-dev/atomic-server

adamcrow64 1y ago ↗

A classic that seem to be lesser known... --> darthsim/imgproxy. (docker) , this is an image proxy. easily run under docker then you can fetch any web image through it and be able to resize on the fly and cache! Fantastic for auto creating user thumbnails etc and not needing to generate different size images. Thanks to the author (Sergey "DarthSim " Alexandrovich)

xs83 1y ago ↗

https://aws.amazon.com/solutions/implementations/serverless-...

AWS just released this too which looks like a much more expensive version of their previous Lambda@Edge functionality.

is_true 1y ago ↗

I think you can do the same with https://developers.cloudflare.com/images/transform-images/

admissionsguy 1y ago ↗

PHP, MySQL, Apache - basically allows one person to the work of multiple teams using more “modern” tech.

rtcoms 1y ago ↗

I'm currently exploring

https://rakkasjs.org/ and https://www.convex.dev/

nbbaier 1y ago ↗

I've been thinking about exploring convex, what are you doing with it?

rtcoms 1y ago ↗

rakkasjs - allow server and client code in the react component itself and it can be deployed on cloudfard

Convex - Provide backend db, background jobs, serverless functions

Trying to setup the simplest MVP framework for my sideprojects

nbbaier 1y ago ↗

Sounds like a solid stack

[dead] qresf 1y ago ↗

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roshankhan28 1y ago ↗

now i dont know how cutting edge this product will be for you but i find it really helpful for my website as i can see how my visitors were performing.

here is the product : www.zipy.ai