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Consider making filesystem-browserify DB-agnostic #1

Open kumavis opened 11 years ago

kumavis commented 11 years ago

This would require splitting this repo into 1) a thin virtual file system API 2) a filesystem-browserify-indexedDB adapter

This would provide the advantage of allowing users to utilize the virtual file system API to interact with a variety of DB flavors and DB-like interfaces.

Other possible FS adapters: -LevelDown via https://npmjs.org/package/level-js -Dropbox via the dropbox API

kumavis commented 11 years ago

But then again -- is this meaningful ? What role would filesystem-browserify play as a thin API layer? would it make more sense to just have a variety of direct fs-to-DB packages?

Here are some imagined architectures: screen shot 2013-05-30 at 11 52 41

In all situations the direct line from app through filesystem-browserify makes me feel like it is an unnecessary layer. Though maybe it would provide utility via DRY and solving some gotchas. I suppose I need to have a good read-through of the code before making such grandiose statements ; )

Thoughts?

kumavis commented 11 years ago

more detailed example stacks screen shot 2013-05-30 at 22 12 07