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📣 mvila

Is “Liaison” a good name for an open source project?


I'm having trouble spreading the word about my new open source project, and I'm wondering if its name - Liaison - is not a terrible choice.

To give you some context, Liaison (https://liaison.dev) is a set of JavaScript/TypeScript libraries to simplify the development of full-stack apps, and the main idea is to reunite the frontend and the backend.

In French, a "liaison" means a "link" between people or things. I think it means more or less the same in English, but it doesn't seem to be commonly used.

I am French, so I cannot answer the following questions with certainty:

- Is the word "liaison" very uncommon in English? - Is it difficult to pronounce, spell, or remember? - Does it have a negative connotation?

If you are a native English speaker, could you please help me answer these questions?

  👤 jart Accepted Answer ✓
At first it sounded like isomorphic javascript, which is better as far as searchability is concerned. Then I read more about your project. Does this really use reflection to generate rpcs for all server-side data objects by default? Because that's really profound. I guess I never really considered before that the reason we design APIs is so we can tightly control what forms of communication the client is allowed to do, and that none of it would be necessary at all, if we could simply just trust the client. I hope the Internet shows your services the kindness they deserve.
👤 exolymph
It's not super difficult to spell but given that it's not very commonly used, a little on the difficult side in terms of spelling.