Sure, it lets you use JavaScript at every level, from the client side (via in-browser JS) to the server (application side) via Node.js to the backend database (via PL/v8.)
So you don't need different languages for client components, server components, and stored procs / db functions.
The author of PLV8 is also continuing to enrich the functionality with things such as this early github project which aims to add the mongo API and functionality in Postgres - https://github.com/umitanuki/mongres
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Sure, it lets you use JavaScript at every level, from the client side (via in-browser JS) to the server (application side) via Node.js to the backend database (via PL/v8.)
So you don't need different languages for client components, server components, and stored procs / db functions.
The author of PLV8 is also continuing to enrich the functionality with things such as this early github project which aims to add the mongo API and functionality in Postgres - https://github.com/umitanuki/mongres
is there integration like this with elasticsearch? that would be awesome.
There is https://github.com/elasticsearch/elasticsearch-lang-javascri...
Though, it is based on Rhino, not v8 – and it's not sandboxed.