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:bar_chart: Use Google Drive spreadsheets as a simple database

18 mentions on Hacker News by 3 people: 4 stories, 14 comments · first 2015-01-19 · latest 2023-02-27

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  1. …console.log(data); // [{ name: 'John', age: 31 }, { name: 'Sarah', age: 27 }, ...] https://github.com/franciscop/drive-db/ It was born very similarly to how the article describes it. For low-amount of data, a spreadsheet is IMHO a much…
    comment by franciscop · 2023-02-27 · in A Relational Spreadsheet
  2. …some feedback on my lib since it seems we are doing the same thing for different user types! [1] https://github.com/franciscop/drive-db
  3. …some meta-information such as publication date, "published" flag, etc. This was then extracted with https://github.com/franciscop/drive-db on a Node.js backend. - Then each article was written as a single google docs document, so we could…
    comment by franciscop · 2020-05-10 · in My blog is now generated by Google Docs
  4. …Wordpress doesn't have and was used a lot for us in the beginning. [1] https://makersupv.com/ [2] https://github.com/FranciscoP/drive-db
  5. I created a whole project for this! https://github.com/franciscop/drive-db Since you can also hook a Google Form to a spreadsheet, you can do surprisingly advanced things over there.
  6. …・Grunt / Jekyll - https://github.com/stpe/grunt-gss-to-json ・simple read-only (JS) - https://github.com/franciscop/drive-db | https://github.com/digplan/gsheet-web ・auth proxy (Golang) - https://github.com/VLO-GDA/server-app
  7. …It also has some basic commands to use it as a Mongo database, or just use the array of data: https://github.com/franciscop/drive-db/ I also made a small tutorial of how to use it: https://serverjs.io/tutorials/spreadsheet/
    comment by franciscop · 2017-11-03 · in Connecting to Google Sheets with Python
  8. …focusing on pleasure/learning so much. [1] https://umbrellajs.com/ [2] https://superdom.site/ [3] https://github.com/franciscop/drive-db
  9. …documentation this is a really valuable comment; I'm guilty of doing this partially for example in https://github.com/franciscop/drive-db where I link to MongoDB platform for the more advanced selectors. In my experience good documentation…
  10. I created something simpler but based on Google Docs and just retrofitted promises into it: https://github.com/franciscop/drive-db
  11. …then, it's really similar to Twillio one but in Node.js but a lot easier to set-up (read-only): - https://github.com/franciscop/drive-db
    comment by franciscop · 2017-02-17 · in Google Spreadsheets and Python
  12. …* drive-db, a tool that converts a Google spreadsheet into a small database for Node.js: https://github.com/franciscop/drive-db
  13. …our demo files are completely different [2] So basically every advantage has a disadvantage (: [1] https://github.com/FranciscoP/drive-db [2] https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1fvz34wY6phWDJsuIneqv...
    comment by franciscop · 2015-10-17 · in The spreadsheet as a minimum viable CMS
  14. …my University team as we were already using Drive, being each entry a google docs document [2] [1] https://github.com/franciscop/drive-db [2] http://www.makersupv.com/