As a blind person who works more productively in a text editor than a web interface[0], here are a few things that might help:
* Give me the ability to enter JSON directly in the permissions screen. I'm sure the query-builder is visually nice, but I can accessibly edit JSON strings better than you can accessibly visually render them, so let me just give you a string and have your interface validate it. Maybe just parse it, then transpose the values directly onto the form inputs in the visual interface.
* Give me a command to validate YAML migrations without applying them. This could even be a --dry-run flag to `hasura migrate` telling me what SQL would run and the JSON for my new/changed permissions.
* Some basic documentation on hand-coding migrations would help. I can sort of reverse-engineer them by pouring over the file formats, but the time taken to work more slowly in the web interface hasn't quite inspired me to take more time learning the undocumented format. :)
I'll see about filing these as issues soon if I can remember to do so. :) Either way, thanks for a cool product! Even if it frustrates me to use, tools like Hasura really hit a pain point for me in building apps.
0. Obviously that isn't universally applicable, but it is easier for me to solve logic problems than "why is my CSS all weird?" problems. Tools like Postgraphile and Hasura make it possible to test more of an app's functionality by writing just SQL rather than lining up my ORM with my language with my SQL schema. I guess just as Node supposedly reduces context-switching by placing more logic in a single language for front-end developers, tools like Hasura and Postgraphile let backend developers focus mostly on SQL when building out the app logic. And while I can't make something look good, damn can I think through how it should work and how someone might break it. :)
As a blind person who works more productively in a text editor than a web interface[0], here are a few things that might help: * Give me the ability to enter JSON directly in the permissions screen. I'm sure the query-builder is visually nice, but I can accessibly edit JSON strings better than you can accessibly visually render them, so let me just give you a string and have your interface validate it. Maybe just parse it, then transpose the values directly onto the form inputs in the visual interface. * Give me a command to validate YAML migrations without applying them. This could even be a --dry-run flag to `hasura migrate` telling me what SQL would run and the JSON for my new/changed permissions. * Some basic documentation on hand-coding migrations would help. I can sort of reverse-engineer them by pouring over the file formats, but the time taken to work more slowly in the web interface hasn't quite inspired me to take more time learning the undocumented format. :)
I'll see about filing these as issues soon if I can remember to do so. :) Either way, thanks for a cool product! Even if it frustrates me to use, tools like Hasura really hit a pain point for me in building apps.
0. Obviously that isn't universally applicable, but it is easier for me to solve logic problems than "why is my CSS all weird?" problems. Tools like Postgraphile and Hasura make it possible to test more of an app's functionality by writing just SQL rather than lining up my ORM with my language with my SQL schema. I guess just as Node supposedly reduces context-switching by placing more logic in a single language for front-end developers, tools like Hasura and Postgraphile let backend developers focus mostly on SQL when building out the app logic. And while I can't make something look good, damn can I think through how it should work and how someone might break it. :)