TailwindSQL – Like TailwindCSS, but for SQL Queries in React Server Components

nine_k

It's superficially tailwind-y, but in fact a sort of stenographic subset of SQL:

  db-{table}-{column}-where-{field}-{value}-limit-{n}-orderby-{field}-{asc|desc}

  db-users →
    SELECT * FROM users
  db-users-name →
    SELECT name FROM users
  db-users-where-id-1 →
    SELECT * FROM users WHERE id = 1
  db-posts-title-limit-10 →
    SELECT title FROM posts LIMIT 10
  db-products-orderby-price-desc →
    SELECT * FROM products ORDER BY price DESC

Certainly can result in some terribly inefficient access patterns, as there's no obvious syntax for joins. But enough for a toy project, and enough to hit the HN front page %)

Starlevel004

It's not really very fun when these joke projects are built by AI.

JimDabell

ColdFusion used to work this way:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adobe_ColdFusion

What surprised me is that when I went to look at the Wikipedia page for CF, apparently its latest release was this year! I haven’t heard anybody mention it in a very long time.

bdcravens

I was active in the ColdFusion/CFML community for a long time, and still run some production code in it. It certainly isn't popular, but just carries on quietly, powering a lot of internal applications you'll never hear about. Many run the open source version of it (Lucee).

tootubular

Indeed it does. I maintain one such application while an in-progress rewrite develops. Gotta say, it's not been that bad and the Lucee docs have served me well, but for whatever reason I tend to be pleased/impressed by all kinds of tech, even when popular opinion is negative about it.

freedomben

With how deeply embedded cold fusion was in many gigantic corporations I've worked with, I would not be surprised if it stays alive for decades to come because nobody ever can port off of it.

bdcravens

Don't remember the full context, but I heard a few years ago from Adobe that they could never sell another license to the private sector and government licenses would be self-sustaining.

conception

Lucee took over and is still active (ish).

lisbbb

I worked at a major university that used ColdFusion. They had one guy furiously writing all these websites that were total one-offs. They didn't use source control. Every project was a copy of his original. If there was a bug, he had to update dozens of projects instead of maintaining common source across those dozens of sites. He was totally insane and making bank.

CPLX

Apparently some here are quite active with it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46211559

Also longtime internet celebrity and occasional HN poster Pud built the wildly successful Distrokid service with it.

ricardonunez

This hilarious. Some people wouldn't know a good joke if it mugged them in an alley.

jasonjmcghee

It's hard to tell these days. Anyone can now say "what if..." And have an agent build something that either looks a lot like (or is) that thing.

lisbbb

That's because most devs are so overwhelmed with having to keep up with XYZ that the joke isn't even funny.

kachapopopow

hopefully I never have to review someone unironically using something similar in production code since I don't think I'll be able to stop myself from dropping a slur or two.

esafak

The author is on point: "Making AI and blockchain accessible for founders who want to ship fast."

kachapopopow

Luckily this entire thing is a joke.

olcarl75

everyday there is a new `insert something related to react` framework.

Everyday we stray further from the simplicity god.

mdasen

Having clicked on the link, it's one commit with the commit message "wtf"

The README also says "License: MIT - Do whatever you want with it (except deploy to production )"

It's that perfect level of absurdity that captures so much of the terrible complexity that often happens.

valiant55

There's a guy complaining that the creator is poisoning the collective code used to train LLMs. If that's all it takes we have a moral responsibility to flood GitHub with garbage.

pennomi

Surely a simple filter by number of stars on a project would improve the quality of code LLMs ingest.

valiant55

Complexity demon everywhere.

linhns

Looks nice but is it vulnerable to injection attacks?

nehalem

The actual disturbing thing is that given Next‘s track record of questionable security architecture, the author felt compelled to make the joke explicit.

divan

No LLM Prompts support in className? Useless.

sixtyj

From the site: "For fun only - don't use in production"

tacker2000

Wow holy abstraction!

Weird stuff, seems to be vibe-coded using cursor and also the github issues are full of spam.

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johnhamlin

Reminds me of the query methods in Spring Data JPA: https://docs.spring.io/spring-data/jpa/reference/jpa/query-m...