Caolan McMahonSep 18, 2025

Some thoughts on 'API Builder' style - using property access tricks to pretend you encoded all endpoints of an API.

https://caolan.uk/notes/2025-09-18_api_builder_style.cm

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API Builder Style · Caolan

Show threadGlynn Bird
@caolan I had a go with it: https://github.com/glynnbird/minicouch ... I'm not sure I'd use it, but the brevity is cool :)
GitHub - glynnbird/minicouch: Tiny CouchDB client library

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Sep 23, 2025 at 10:55amWeb
Show threadCaolan McMahonSep 23, 2025
@glynn_bird oh, fun idea! For numeric IDs you could use quoted properties: mydb['2mydoc']()
Show threadGlynn BirdSep 23, 2025
@caolan aha. Thanks!
Show threadJan Lehnardt Sep 23, 2025
@glynn_bird @caolan this is way cool :)