Progress of DDLX and Shapes

[balegas]

This discussion tracks the progress on the two main Electric interfaces, DDLX and Shapes interface, that are available with simplifications and currently under development.

As of the 0.7.0 release, it is possible to use DDLX syntax for electrifying tables and the Shapes API is fully supported on the client, but with some (coarse) simplifications:

• full-table (over)sync: always sync the entire data of a table, independently of the filters you apply
• shapes must include all dependent tables, i.e. a table and all reachable tables following foreign keys.

We'll continue updating this discussion with the progress and examples on how you can use the system at the current state of development.

[thruflo]

@balegas would be nice to have an update now shapes are merged.

[balegas]

@icehaunter is preparing some docs for the release.

[maurotrigo]

Hi there,

I'm seriously considering Electric to rebuild our mobile and web apps at CityTroops. We've been playing with it for the past 2 weeks, but the current state of the Shape interface really scared us. Since our platform is multi-tenant, over-synchronization is a real problem. Is there a tentative timeline for Shapes?

Thank you, really love what you're doing.