I’m early into a hobby project that is using a Atlas and a Swift REST Vapor API powering a Vue.js front-end, that eventually will have an iOS client. I’ve just watched the keynote for 4.4 and it seems that perhaps I’d benefit from using Realm for this. So if I add a realm application application, will that be just a layer on top of my existing mongo, or will I have to redo the data layer?
@Jonny The Realm Sync data layer replicates changes between objects in Realm on an iOS mobile app and documents in MongoDB. All of this is done for you in a background thread so you do not need to write any of the code to perform the shuttling of data. What you are describing is REST API on the server-side which will serve data down to the client - Realm Sync takes care of this for you.
Ok thanks Ian, I think that answers my question, which maybe could have been phrased better. But I can essentially scrap most of my REST layer (I’m sure I still might need an API for some things I want to do) and replace with built in realm functionality.
