rubys/todos-express-tigris

This project is a simple to-do list web application, the kind where you add tasks, check them off, and delete them. What makes it interesting is an experiment in how the app handles its data: instead of keeping the database file in one fixed place, it pulls the database from a cloud storage service called Tigris before every action and pushes the updated version back afterward. The app itself is built with Node.js and Express, a common pairing for building websites. It uses plain HTML pages styled with basic CSS, and it relies on traditional HTML forms to add or complete tasks, rather than a complex JavaScript interface. The database is SQLite, a lightweight system that normally stores data in a single local file. The twist here is that the app fetches and updates that file from Tigris on the fly. The main reason someone would use this is to understand how to run multiple copies of the same app in different geographic regions while sharing a single data source. For example, if you have users in both New York and London, you could deploy an instance of this app to servers in each city so both groups get fast response times. By fetching and pushing the database file to central cloud storage, every instance works with the same data. The README is upfront about a significant tradeoff: there is no locking mechanism in place. This means if two people update their to-do list at the exact same time, one person's update could overwrite the other's and that data gets lost. It is essentially a proof of concept for distributing a simple SQLite database across multiple regions, rather than a production-ready application you would deploy for real users. It serves as a straightforward learning tool for exploring these cloud distribution concepts.