Show HN: Res(ts): Auto-Generate TypeScript Models for Django Projects

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54 points·petewoyzbun··8 comments

WOW! This is exactly what I need for a project I'm working on. Using a DRF/Django backend for an API with an angular web frontend.

I'm going to start playing with this right away. Awesome job!

This is cool, but I don't see anything about security. Surely if someone were to implement this naively on a public server, it opens the possibility for anyone to just truncate your tables?

You can configure DRF permission classes in the interface definitions, so there's some security.

One thing I don't totally understand is the context in which the TypeScript is intended to be run. Server? Client? If client, I find it surprising to introduce a QuerySet-like API.

Could be useful server side if you have microservices.

I tried a similar approach for a new-unpopular framework, Knockout:

https://github.com/Miserlou/django-knockout-modeler

If I had the time, I'd redo it for Vue.

Knockout is unpopular but boy is it intuitive.

I would reconsider how you're describing this project. "Models" in the frontend world imply a data model like in Backbone in Angular.

As far as I can tell Typescript itself doesn't have a concept of a "Model". Which makes sense because its not a web framework - its a programing language

https://www.google.com/search?q=Model+https%3A%2F%2Fwww.type...

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