Open pandevim opened 4 years ago
Google Sheets is a great service but a one problem I'm thinking about is the lack of support for multiple selection / array values in the same cell (for the categories
and techUsed
properties of our project). Additionally, how would we also deal with Person
objects in our spreadsheet, and when we try to retrieve data from the API?
Thanks for addressing this. I totally forgot about our schema design. I will consider these as drawbacks because according to my knowledge there is no straight forward way to implement Array
and Object
in Google sheets. Maybe we can cleverly store our data in multiple Google sheets which can look like nested data from a high level or maybe there is some way in the 3rd party spreadsheet service. Till my next update I can try to build a prototype with some mock data and figure way out of these drawbacks.
It turned out the js library of Stein
is not providing any abstractions to structure JSON properly. And the closest thing can be done is to create different sheets for each object and array which create lots of problem in maintaining and entry of data.
Also while creating the prototype I ran into some problems like:
Finally tried another approach in #31
Some considerations here:
Pros:
Cons:
Team: @esu2020 @pandevim @justonsky
Following up from #21. After exploring through different solutions:
I came to see trade-off between complexity and free tier API limitations. My investigation led me to these solutions:
The above mentioned Spreadsheet/Google Sheet based solution are free, easy to setup and maintain, support Restful JSON API, real time read/write, etc.
Some noticeable drawbacks are still present like less request limit and if the service went down but it seems sufficient and we always have data in google sheet where we can change the service and the website will keep running. Whereas API limits for Google Sheet API is 500 requests/100 seconds/project, and 100 requests/100 seconds/user.