Bonfire Networks: An open-source framework for building federated digital spaces

[mayel]

I’ve posted another library, this is one that Bonfire relies on heavily for handling feeds of social activities and other core features like boundaries:

Needle - Universal foreign keys, shared data fields, virtual and configurable schemas for Ecto

When using a relational DB (such an Ecto schema with a Postgres table), usually a foreign key field has to be pre-defined with a reference pointing to a specific field in a specific table. A simple example would be a blogging app, which might have a post table with author field that references the user table. A social network, by contrast, usually requires a graph of objects, meaning objects need to be able to refer to other objects by their ID without knowing their type. A simple example wou…