- Developer screen
- Feature flagging
- Allow switching backend on-the-fly without rebuilding
- Smoke testing backend on the first connection
- Pinging to BE once in a minute or so, keep-alive check
- gettext-style of i18n
- RPC with schema and introspection + protocol negotiation
- Thin application layer on top of a database. No ORM.
- Expose DB to the client with proper rate-limiting, row-level security, concurrency handling
- Include git version at runtime by having an autogenerated file that is imported by the main code. The file is added to .gitignore.
git describe --tags
export const VERSION_STRING = GIT_VERSION_STRING || 'ERR_VERSION_UNKNOWN'
- Send app identification string to server together with every request
- App name
- Version, build code
- Platform