Has anyone used github as a database for their applications ? 🤔

Depends, what do you mean with database? Im storing CMS content there for my github pages things

Mysql COMMIT gets a whole new meaning there 😅

Unix pass command uses git (not necessarily github) as an easy way to synchronize its database on multiple machines. it just stores encrypted passwords as files in a directory tree. Pretty clever, but also would never put on github, even though they are encrypted.

That has been done before. I seem to recall an issue where the Enki app cause some issue at GitHub a few years back. Everytime a user used the app it would push and pull user's profile data to their own branch on the repo.

The tree grew to large and caused some trouble.

Edit: I found the original email from December 2016. Can't attach the screenshot for some reason....🤔

I once used marshnellos, a camera and color recognition as a db.a burnt black marshmello is 0 and the white uncooked ones were 1

@Turtles-nation 😂😂😂

Using GitHub as a DB is one of those things that works right up until it spectacularly doesn't. A local JSON file is the far less cursed cousin — and fjsondb wraps one with a tiny key/value API so you get set/get/has/delete without hand-rolling it.