This is a follow-up to my previous Replit application. I was able to successfully migrate the Replit application onto my local development server, ironically with the help of Replit itself.
I am NOT a fan of TypeScript, but Replict was instrumental in helping sort out dependcies and setup database connections. For instance, Replit initially setup Websockets for my Postgres database. I struggled to get them to work and eventually just asked Replet to remove them. It took three seconds and Replit completely removed the websocket aspects of the code. Is this ideal for large production environment? No, but the goal was just to judge how complicated it would be to move outside of the Replit environment.
What I found interesting is that it was NOT shy about helping me fix things on my local workstation. I actually would have thought the developer would have put guardrails to KEEP me in their environment (more money). I hope they do NOT add them in the future.