[HN Gopher] How we built Townie - an app that generates fullstac...
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       How we built Townie - an app that generates fullstack apps
        
       Author : stevekrouse
       Score  : 42 points
       Date   : 2024-08-22 18:01 UTC (1 days ago)
        
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 (TXT) w3m dump (blog.val.town)
        
       | janpaul123 wrote:
       | Post author here! Happy to answer any questions.
        
       | syspec wrote:
       | Does fullstack here mean using javascript on the backend? Is it
       | able to generate code for other backend languages?
        
         | janpaul123 wrote:
         | Yes exactly. It generates code for Val Town, which hosts
         | Typescript backends.
        
           | ilaksh wrote:
           | I think that this is kind of an obvious "optimization" for
           | making application generation much more reliable. Just
           | because the models can generate code for one of 1000
           | different platforms, doesn't mean that you need all of them.
           | Just by narrowing the scope to a particular platform makes it
           | much more feasible to get working applications without
           | needing manual debugging due to out of date library
           | references etc.
           | 
           | I think something like the approach you have demonstrated
           | here will relatively quickly become the standard for "no-
           | code" application development.
        
             | janpaul123 wrote:
             | Completely agree. It's useful not just for targeting one
             | specific language, but all the other APIs that we have, and
             | things like RAG to search for importable modules on the
             | platform. Duplicating all that across many platforms is a
             | lot of work!
        
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