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Dragos Bulugean · 2019-07-02T06:05:15.098Z

Developers, I'd like to share a success story of using open-source technology to build a product. I started https://archbee.io as a pet project, wanting to learn this obscure thing named SVG. I was mostly a Java backend developer at the time and thou...

Nice story Dragos Bulugean,I have had similar stories with my pet projects and never be able to dedicate some time to finish them up to be a paid product. Always life and work came first when I have some spare time.

Aside from that I wanted to ask you about the JointJS. One of my pet project is heavily diagram designing. How was your experience with JointJS. I have worked with GOjs at one of my previous jobs and library-wise it is pretty heavy and complex. Which I do need its complex structure to handle many use-cases I have but I was wondering if anything else out there that I can compare against.

Serdar, I was like this with a bunch of projects until I said: "no more I will lauch something", and I commited to it. Everything was easier afterwards.

JointJS is pretty cool. Has some weaknesses like: it's built with Backbone and now my build has to include an extra 120kb just for it, and its programming model doesn't really match React's. But I am ok with it so far. I have no experience with GOjs, but I heard it's pretty good.

Yes, I agree. I just need to wrap my head around and commit to it.

You just said Backbone, and lost me there :) I worked with Backbone long enough time to love and hate it. It's data event management is wonderful but always causes memory leaks. I even tried to combine backbone with react at some point but just lead to another disaster.

I worked with GoJs for a auditing application for deloitte and it is pretty good. They have a different way of structuring their data models but once you grasp the concept, it is good and flexible. I would suggest to take a look if you are interested.

Nice story. Personally, if I make something even remotely successful, I don't think I would feel guilty. But, I would try to participate a bit more on open source project (especially the ones I leveraged my app with).

Regarding your Postgres GUI, I use HeidiSQL at home and at the office, it works with both MySQL and Postgres (and a few others). Best client in my opinion, but the support for Postgres is not perfect. Otherwise, there is a client included with Postgres server package when you install it. (at least on Windows)

Yep, I am participating in a bunch of them, but not contributing code yet, just being part of the community on GitHub. That's why I said "almost nothing" :)

I knew HeidiSQL but I thought it's a bit rusty, so I didn't try it again. Will def give it a shot :)

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