Hubs

Hubs is a paradigm shift in how we think about organizing and accessing various databases and backend data sources.

Applications tend to organize their codebases and data access methods around each database or data source that are utilized within an application. However, applications frequently source data from various databases/data sources for a single related data object (like user profiles and website activity of that user).

Hubs allow developers to organize data access methods, flows, queries, etc. based on project, service, object, or pipeline while mix-and-matching the underlying data sources without the developer overhead that exists in large code bases attempting to do the same thing.

The power of this innovation is most obvious when setting up and organizing queries within the nokori UI.

Universal Access

A core value proposition of Hubs is the ability to access data from any data source from anywhere. This means, for example, frontend framework developers can query databases directly from the browser without building an API first.

Where this is useful:

• Any frontend framework that can make HTTP requests

• A raspberry pi that is collecting data from a sensor

• A mobile app that needs to access data from a database or update a database with a user's current location

• A serverless/edge function that needs to access data from a database

• An Express API that utilizes multiple databases and/or database types

Centralization of Queries

As companies and projects grow, it is common for developers to create multiple projects or applications that query a lot of the same data.

By centralizing queries within Hubs, query or database schema updates no long require manual updates to identical queries in multiple code bases (which is error prone). Queries can be updated centrally and deployed, with every app or edge device getting the update immediately.

Create A Hub

curl -G https://api.nokori.com/v1/hubs \
  -H 'x-nokori-api-key: {{apiKey}}' \
  -H 'Content-Type: application/json'
  -d '{ "label" : "Cosmic Soda Shop" }'

{
  "hubId": "lola.hub.hsnwg921TBQbNKeNMjS",
  "label": "Cosmic Soda Shop",
  "archived": 0,
  "createdAt": "2023-02-14T21:00:52.000Z",
  "updatedAt": null
}

List all hubs

curl -G https://api.nokori.com/v1/hubs/ \
  -H 'x-nokori-api-key: {{apiKey}}'

[
  {
    "hubId": "lola.hub.hsnwg921TBQbNKeNMjS",
    "label": "Cosmic Soda Shop",
    "archived": 0,
    "createdAt": "2023-02-14T21:20:46.000Z",
    "updatedAt": null
  }
]

Update a Hub

curl https://api.nokori.com/v1/hubs/:hubId \
  -X PUT
  -H 'x-nokori-api-key: {{apiKey}}' \
  -H 'Content-Type: application/json'
  -d '{ "label" : "Cosmic Soda Shop 2.0" }'

{}