Forget-Me-Not

Forget-Me-Not is a Nim port of an application we designed and built a couple years ago that was based on Svelte 3(?) with a Laravel and MariaDB JSON API backend. That was during our multi-month deep dive on Javascript web/UI frameworks, SPAs, etc. after many years of studiously ignoring them. 😀 Well, we kept an eye on the ecosystem, but were skeptical about the overall attractiveness of the stack.

That application is pretty cool and we've been using it internally ever since, but it has some bugs that we never got around to fixing, and features that never got implemented, as we decided not to progress with that overall web software stack.

Now, with the Nim rewrite, we are using Guildenstern, which is just a small, fast, multi-threaded Nim HTTP server(the part we're using anyway), with SQLiteral, a small library for interfacing with SQLite, which itself is a small, lightweight, single file SQL database; instead of something like PHP, Laravel, and it's ORM, or query builder, and a MariaDB server that needs to be "managed". We wrote our own micro web framework around Guildenstern using mostly Nim's standard library, so the maintenance and overall risk and burden will be significantly reduced, which results in less ongoing cost passed on to the customer. We are using this base in our Simple Site Manager, as well, and will use it for future projects, improving on it as we go.