Comment by mawalu | Hacker News Reader

Comment by mawalu | Hacker News Reader

I'm toying around with this idea myself. After some thoughts I created a simple node.js app that provides services like a http server and a spotify api client to module that are autoloaded from some folder.

Whenever I feel like it I can very easily extend this platform by just writing a new javascript file. Currently there are thinks like

  * An endpoint to show my currently playing track on spotify
  * An endpoint that renders one of my todoist lists as html (my whislist)
  * A reporting module that receives webhooks from different backup scripts and sends me a report by mail every day
  * Move new songs from a spotify playlist to an archive playlist after a few weeks to keep the playlist "fresh"

I always wanted to create a bigger project based on my learnings but I'm not yet completely happy with the technical implementation

You should check out Code on Standard Library [0], we do exactly this - turn JavaScript files into APIs via the open source FunctionScript specification [1]. We’re a Stripe-backed company and we do a lot of other stuff, too (handle auth between multiple providers... etc.), but building APIs easily is where we started.

We have a lot of new tooling coming soon, so if this is of interest to you please reach out! You can e-mail me directly: keith at (our domain).

[0] https://code.stdlib.com/

[1] https://github.com/functionscript/functionscript

I signed up to stdlib a while back because it sounds like exactly what I want and looked really cool. I don't remember what through me off exactly but I will take another look.

No worries! We’re improving all the time. The problems we solve within organizations revolve around connecting APIs together (like Stripe and Slack), but the system we’ve built to manage that is effectively a fully-functional API registry and module management system you can use on your own :).

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