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Jose Balaguer
17,473 PointsDoes a MEAN web application work well with native apps?
I'm in the full-stack JS track to develop a web app. It seems great to use NoSQL DB like MongoDB but I'm trying to figure out how it will work later if I develop native iOS and Android apps. I was wondering if the no-schema DB makes the stored data hard or even imposible to be accessed from the native apps. Thanks in advance.
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Seth Kroger
56,413 PointsFor getting to and from the server, that's accomplished relatively easily as there are a number of ways to translate back-and-froth from JSON to object. The tricky part is when you want to store/cache the data locally. You'd have to decide on using the native DB options, converting objects to the native DB format (and whether/which ORM to use to do it) or look for a NoSQL database engine of mobile and convert objects to that format.
Jose Balaguer
17,473 PointsOk Seth, I'm begining to see where are you going. I really apreciate your comments. Thnx
Andrew Chalkley
Treehouse Guest TeacherWe're currently building a course called, REST API with Express which includes how to make a JSON api with Mongo db and Express :) Keep an eye out :)
Jose Balaguer
17,473 PointsBook me in Andrew :)
Jose Balaguer
17,473 PointsJose Balaguer
17,473 PointsThanks for your comment.
The cache part looks a nightmare to me :) I still have many to learn.
In the scenario "webApp + nativeApps", do you have alternative suggestions on language+DB (SQL or NoSQL)? I'm also learning Ruby on the side.
Seth Kroger
56,413 PointsSeth Kroger
56,413 PointsHonestly, if your data is stored entirely on the server and doesn't need to be persisted locally on the phone/tablet/whatever you can stop reading my answer after the first sentence. For a lot of apps that's all that's needed. (see org.json and Gson for Android) The thing to remember is your data stopped being a NoSQL database object the moment it was converted to JSON and sent out by the server. This is as true for an Angular app as it is for a native app. How, and if you write it back out to local storage is up to you.