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Show HN: Schema First React Router

fragile_frogs — Wed, 21 Jan 2026 18:16:26 +0000

I have been working on this experiment for quite some time and over the holidays I found sometime to polish things. I wanted to see if I can build a fully type-safe router, where everything from route params to search params was fully typed, even links.

My main inspiration came from Servant [1]

In Servant, you define a type-level API specification and then you use this type specification to:

- Implement a web server

- Generate client functions

I am still working on the API design and would love to get some feedback on the pattern.

[1] https://www.servant.dev/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46709349

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New comment by fragile_frogs in "Ode to libraries (the book ones)"

fragile_frogs — Fri, 26 Sep 2025 13:04:38 +0000

> So what to do? Go to nearest coffee shop. You’re lucky if they don’t play tasteless trendy music. You’re lucky if a waiter doesn’t keep asking if you need anything, isn’t intrusive, and doesn’t subtly let you know when it’s time to leave by checking on you constantly . You’re lucky if no teenagers talking loudly about their-whatever-teens-talk-about-these-days.

I used to work from coffee shops until I realized how annoying it is to have a café full of people working on their laptops. A once lively place that was supposed to be an escape to relax, meet friends or read a book has turned into a soulless office environment. I want to go to a café to escape work, not to be reminded of it by constant keyboard sounds or video calls.

> You’re lucky if a waiter doesn’t keep asking if you need anything, isn’t intrusive, and doesn’t subtly let you know when it’s time to leave by checking on you constantly .

> Oh, by the way, pay a lot of money to be here and to drink a nice cup of burnt coffe.

How entitled can you be to think that you can occupy a table for the whole day and expect to only buy one coffee?

> Then rent an office or subscribe to a co-working space? What? I get paid to work, not to pay for it.

Yes, that is exactly you are supposed to do. If you are working remotely and can´t afford a co-working space you are probably underpaid. Your salary should either include that expense or your employer should cover that for you.

New comment by fragile_frogs in "React Is the New IBM (2023)"

fragile_frogs — Tue, 27 Feb 2024 16:08:17 +0000

> Andrew Clark’s vision of using more compiler magic to solve for React’s shortcomings is indeed a very Facebook-esque approach to solving problems with performance and suitability

and

> Much of the innovation in the UI space is now happening around the edges of the React ecosystem: Solid.js, Preact.js, Svelte.js, Vue.js, Astro.js, Qwik.js, Marko.js

- Solid.js requires *babel-preset-solid* [1]

- Selvte has a compiler

- Astro components are custom `.astro` files

- Qwik.js ships an optimizing compiler [2]

- Vue has `@vue/compiler-sfc` [3]

React is fine, stable and easy to upgrade

[1] https://www.solidjs.com/guides/getting-started

[2] https://qwik.dev/docs/advanced/optimizer/

[3] https://vuejs.org/guide/scaling-up/tooling#lower-level-packa...

New comment by fragile_frogs in "I paid for Sublime Text"

fragile_frogs — Thu, 14 Sep 2023 03:50:26 +0000

I have been using Sublime Text for about 8 years now, I have tried multiple different editors in the mean time including VS Code, Atom, Fleet and I always went back to Sublime Text.

After years of using ST for free, I finally bought a license about two years ago when ST 4 came out, I am also a paid user of Sublime Merge, which is the best git client I have tried.

New comment by fragile_frogs in "VanMoof encryption key exporter"

fragile_frogs — Fri, 14 Jul 2023 08:13:08 +0000

I ride BMX, road bikes and Mountain Bikes. I've tried a VanMoof two years ago and the build quality was terrible. You couldn't pay me to ride one.

New comment by fragile_frogs in "'BlackBerry' review: The comedy and tragedy of the innovator's dilemma"

fragile_frogs — Tue, 23 May 2023 08:25:52 +0000

I bought the BlackBerry Classic a while ago and I also own the Key 2.

The BB Classic is everything I want in a smartphone, the build quality is great, the keyboard is amazing in and BB OS is really intuitive and fluid to use.

Such a shame that every smartphone nowadays is just a rectangle with a screen and nothing else...

New comment by fragile_frogs in "Ask HN: Why is there no database with a functional query language?"

fragile_frogs — Wed, 19 Apr 2023 13:42:42 +0000

I want something like ReQL[1] but as a language itself

[1] https://rethinkdb.com/docs/sql-to-reql/javascript/

Ask HN: Why is there no database with a functional query language?

fragile_frogs — Wed, 19 Apr 2023 13:24:28 +0000

I have been asking this myself for a while now, I generally do enjoy writing SQL, but I also get the feeling that it's not suitable for building applications.

So why is there no "functional" query language? Something like Haskell, but for databases. You would get the benefits of a declarative model, composeability and type-safety.

I am currently using sqlx[1] and it's great in terms of type-safety, but you can't compose queries. I don't like to use ORM's, they are usually good for simple things, but hard things are impossible and you have to use/understand SQL anyways.

[1] https://github.com/launchbadge/sqlx

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35627833

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New comment by fragile_frogs in "Hetzner continues its growth in the US with a new location"

fragile_frogs — Mon, 05 Dec 2022 13:59:30 +0000

> I might make an exception for RethinkDB since I loved it so dearly.

Don't get my hopes up... I haven't used RethinkDB in ages and have fully moved to Postgres though

New comment by fragile_frogs in "Working with Tailwind CSS every day for 2 years"

fragile_frogs — Tue, 29 Nov 2022 20:32:05 +0000

You could combine styled-components/emotion with something like open-props[0]. You get all the power that comes with CSS and a set of variables to help you create a consistent design. That's how I manage my styling.

[0] https://open-props.style

New comment by fragile_frogs in "Working with Tailwind CSS every day for 2 years"

fragile_frogs — Tue, 29 Nov 2022 20:28:38 +0000

I've been looking for someone to mention open-props and I really enjoy using it.

New comment by fragile_frogs in "Ask HN: How would you design an alternative Twitter"

fragile_frogs — Tue, 01 Nov 2022 14:27:16 +0000

Yeah, you would have to raise the one-time payment constantly in order to keep up with your own recurring costs, the more users you have the greater your costs will be.

New comment by fragile_frogs in "Talking to strangers can make us smarter?"

fragile_frogs — Mon, 31 Oct 2022 10:38:03 +0000

I used to work at Starbucks for about a year and a half and it all depends how busy it is. Unless it's busy, those random conversations with customers where the best part of the job, at least for me.

New comment by fragile_frogs in "Open source sustainment and the future of Gitea"

fragile_frogs — Wed, 26 Oct 2022 13:54:16 +0000

> Only downside of SEPA is that it is a lot less common outside EU/Europe

SEPA stands for "Single Euro Payments Area" and was build for the EU/Europe, I don't think it's available outside of Europe.

New comment by fragile_frogs in "Turbopack, the successor to Webpack"

fragile_frogs — Wed, 26 Oct 2022 12:57:40 +0000

IMO where Parcel shines is when you are building client side single page apps or JS/TS libraries.

I could see that it won't be the right tool for a multi page server rendered app.

New comment by fragile_frogs in "Turbopack, the successor to Webpack"

fragile_frogs — Wed, 26 Oct 2022 12:34:07 +0000

> I’m still searching for a zero-conf full-stack pipeline which could manage both frontend and backend in a single project under a single watch command

I did create a proof of concept how this could be done in parcel https://github.com/mochicode/parcel-fullstack-poc.

The /src folder contains:

1. /api => backend

2. /app => react frontend

3. /shared => shared code

Once everything is installed, just run "npm start" and it will:

1. build and watch your src folder

2. react hmr/fast-refresh works

3. nodemon will reload your node server when things change

4. serve your react app on localhost:8000/frontend, currently hard coded, but I could also load this from the package.json file.

Not zero-config, but it almost gets you there.

New comment by fragile_frogs in "Turbopack, the successor to Webpack"

fragile_frogs — Tue, 25 Oct 2022 23:25:49 +0000

I think this could benefit Rome. Both projects are written in Rust and so far they have a linter and a formatter and now they can integrate Turbopack, package it behind "rome build" and don't have to build their own bundler and transpiler.

New comment by fragile_frogs in "Turbopack, the successor to Webpack"

fragile_frogs — Tue, 25 Oct 2022 23:17:38 +0000

I think this might have just made their lives easier, from the projects website:

> Rome is designed to replace Babel, ESLint, webpack, Prettier, Jest, and others.

Since both projects are written in Rust, the Rome team could use Tubopack to build/bundle projects and focus on the other features they are planing: https://rome.tools/#supported-features

New comment by fragile_frogs in "Turbopack, the successor to Webpack"

fragile_frogs — Tue, 25 Oct 2022 23:03:04 +0000

> I just wanna `script/build` or `yarn dev` and not think about it anymore.

Parcel might be a good fit for you: https://parceljs.org/

New comment by fragile_frogs in "Turbopack, the successor to Webpack"

fragile_frogs — Tue, 25 Oct 2022 22:39:38 +0000

And when you try to upgrade just one plugin everything breaks and you have to upgrade everything.