Show HN: Gingee – A GenAI Authored JavaScript App Server (github.com)

Gingee is a new, "AI co‑authored" Node.js application server created through a dialog between a human architect (Vignesh Swaminathan) and a generative AI (listed as Google Gemini). The project aims to validate GenAI’s feasibility for platform/framework‑level programming — not just scaffolding simple apps — and positions Gingee as a production‑ready, “batteries‑included” server with a full recorded chat transcript for transparency. The team claims Gingee can be bootstrapped in under a minute via gingee-cli and shipped under an MIT license, illustrating a reproducible, dialog‑driven development workflow and publishing token usage metrics (phases showing ~1M and ~700K tokens used of a 1,048,576 token context). Technically, Gingee emphasizes secure‑by‑default sandboxing (gbox), a whitelist permissions model, and isolated per‑app lifecycles managed from a built‑in Glade admin UI. It provides a single powerful middleware/global context ($g), zero‑config file routing, native ESM support, multi‑app hosting, pluggable caching (Redis), PM2 compatibility, and multi‑database support (Postgres, SQLite, MySQL) with a rich standard library (crypto, image/pdf, DB, http client). It also supports automated CI/CD installs, interactive/automated installers, a decentralized app store (gstore.json), and an ai-context.md knowledge bundle for AI partners. For the AI/ML community, Gingee is a concrete case study in using large context windows and iterative prompting to build and maintain framework‑level code, highlighting reproducibility, security tradeoffs, and operational considerations when entrusting infrastructure code to generative models.