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What about this is Flutter specific, other than being a Dart web framework?
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Thank you! The previous Dart backend attempts were predating Flutter, so the conditions are very different now. Serverpod is also a funded company, and not a side or hobby project like earlier Dart servers.
How will you make money?
Hi! I'm Viktor, the lead developer of Serverpod. Feel free to ask me any questions, and I'll try to answer. You can also watch the Serverpod 1.0 release keynote on Youtube here: https://youtu.be/QN6juNWW3js
I've applied twice to one of your open positions but never even received a reply, how come?
The entire API/serialization/… part also seems extremely primitive, what with it being only capable of either exposing data or not, with no easy way to filter or transform data.
Let's hope it survives long enough to be competitive with mature frameworks.
Not entirely sure what's "revolutionary" about the ORM, although the lack of joins, M2M relationships, migrations, and other basic features certainly is revolting. The entire API/serialization/… part also seems extremely primitive, what with it being only capable of either exposing data or not, with no easy way to filter or transform data. Let's hope it survives long enough to be competitive with mature frameworks.
Granted there are still lots of gaps to fill, but we are surely getting there. The biggest new feature we are working on is database migrations.
What about this is Flutter specific, other than being a Dart web framework?
It's not so much a web framework as it is an app backend. So it's not great (yet) at rendering web pages, but it is great for doing remote method calls and streaming data. That being said, Serverpod is not limited to Flutter, you can use it for any Dart app.
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How will you make money?
The main plan is to provide hosting for Serverpod. It's still an open-source project, so you can always host it yourself or on the cloud platform of your choice.
Our own surveys show, that enterprise users want to host on a platform of their choice. They are not too eager to switch providers and are more unlikely to use your software if it doesn’t run on AWS
Knowing that, if you want to capture enterprise users, you should offer a managed version of your product on AWS or GCP
Not entirely sure what's "revolutionary" about the ORM, although the lack of joins, M2M relationships, migrations, and other basic features certainly is revolting. The entire API/serialization/… part also seems extremely primitive, what with it being only capable of either exposing data or not, with no easy way to filter or transform data. Let's hope it survives long enough to be competitive with mature frameworks.
It's revolutionary to Dart in the sense that you can use strict typing when communicating with the database. This is very helpful as you get much more help with autocomplete and other language tooling. Granted there are still lots of gaps to fill, but we are surely getting there. The biggest new feature we are working on is database migrations.
AFAIK most of the Dart server projects have been abandoned so I'm weary to try new ones. Let's hope this one will stick, it looks cool.
AFAIK most of the Dart server projects have been abandoned so I'm weary to try new ones. Let's hope this one will stick, it looks cool.
The original creator of Flutter actually left Google rather recently and is in the process of building a Dart server project as his next thing. It’s not even at alpha stage yet however it’s VERY new https://github.com/shorebirdtech