Separating the UI from the backend

[venkatd]

Project looks very interesting!

Was thinking it might be simpler to focus on datacore being just the backend--indexing/querying capabilities--and have a "notion-like" view be a separate plugin.

You could first swap dataview to use datacore, then later focus on building richer UIs after that. That way the scope of datacore can stay manageable.

Thoughts?

[blacksmithgu]

This is a good design principle and for the most part the frontend and backend are wholly independent; that being said, the datacore query model is sufficiently different from dataview that the query language doesn't quite translate well.

I am currently trying to release a much more dataview-esque frontend to enable people to at least use datacore, while providing the nice performance and new query types.