Imagine you could share user data with JavaScript right in the browser. How would the code look like? This is what I came up with. Forks & comments much appreciated! (see also: https://gist.github.com/gr2m/5463475) #nobackend #dreamcode

share_dreamcode.js

// add a new share
share = new Share()

// grant / revoke access
share.grantReadAccess()
share.grantWriteAccess()
share.revokeReadAccess()
share.revokeWriteAccess()
share.grantReadAccess('joe@example.com')
share.revomeWriteAccess(['joe@example.com', 'lisa@example.com'])

// add all todo objects to the share
store.findAll('todo').then(share.add)

// remove a specific todo from the share
store.find('todo', '123').then(share.remove)

// remove objects from all shares
store.findAll('todo').then(share.remove)

// remove share
share.destroy()

// open a share and load all its objects
share = new Share('shareIdHere')
share.findAll().done( render )

// subscribe: sync changes between local store and remote share
share.subscribe()
share.unsubscribe()

This looks cool. I am curious how would shares work. Would a share just be an object that contains pointers to data objects? Or would the actual data object be copied into the share?

in a talk [1] someone from hoodie mentioned that they share the data using filtered replication of couchdb

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-x3Q61dBAwk#t=1770

I've updated the code to be generic