rexie vs. idb

[flosse]

@devashishdxt you're the maintainer of both rexie and idb so probably you can answer the question quite easily:
What's the main difference? And which one is more lightweight or closer to the JS API?

[ShaddyDC]

I don't know the libraries as well as him, but I can give you a quick overview until he has time to elaborate.
idb is intended to be a light wrapper to build your own abstractions over, so it's very close to the JS API. For even more fine-grained control over callbacks and the like, you can additionally use the internal idb-sys. That also means that some of the rough edges of the call-back API are exposed to the user, and some cases are a bit more annoying to handle with idiomatic rust.
rexie on the other hand, adds some more abstractions to make things more convenient to handle, at the cost of allowing less control over the gory details.
Lastly, the author seems to be working on a third library for interacting with IndexedDB as well in deli. It's a wrapper around idb, so if you don't like the ergonomics of rexie, that may be worth a look too.
It should be noted that rexie is more popular than idb is more popular than deli. I don't know to what level the author is planning to support each of these and how mature they are. I can say that the author was reasonably quick to respond to me and to address my issues.

[devashishdxt]

I'm definitely guilty of creating so many crates for indexed db. But, here is the complete story:

1. I created rexie for a small project I was working on which needed to interact with indexed db. The API was quite nice but it still needed too much code to do very simple things and even though most of the things from indexed db are supported, there are few things which are missing. For example, cursors, migrations, etc.
2. I was going through some gloo design discussions and realized that they have a very different approach in their crates. They support both, callback based APIs and wrapper around that to use with async/await. So, I created idb-sys and idb.
3. Finally, I wanted a super simple to use derive macro based crate that can directly store Rust structs in indexed db with minimal code. So, I started working on deli. Almost all the things are now supported in deli except for migrations and updating the values using cursor.

I think, for someone who doesn't want low level control, deli is the most simple crate to use to interact with indexed db.

I hope this answers your question.

[flosse]

@devashishdxt Thanks for you answer!