Lately I've become a pretty big believer in flat files.
I don't see much value at all in small software for the sake of being small, but files are something really special.
You can SyncThing them. You can version control them. You can browse and delete them.
And best of all, they're not really flat anymore. A file is a typed object that tools know how to work with(As long as you do the sane thing and use a common file type).
Databases are often appropriate, but in those cases, I think sqlite is the better choice more often than not, unless you've truly got a large number of users all doing things at once.
I don't see much value at all in small software for the sake of being small, but files are something really special.
You can SyncThing them. You can version control them. You can browse and delete them.
And best of all, they're not really flat anymore. A file is a typed object that tools know how to work with(As long as you do the sane thing and use a common file type).
Databases are often appropriate, but in those cases, I think sqlite is the better choice more often than not, unless you've truly got a large number of users all doing things at once.