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Re: Show HN: Open-source Firebase Alternative? It's here

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Post by christyjacob4 »

nicoburns wrote: post #17
vincentge wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Both are great products, here's my biased (obviously) way of choosing between them: - Appwrite is really focused on a simplistic experience. If you check out our SDK documentation, we try to keep everything dead simple. - Supabase allows more verbose control over their PostgreSQL instance, i.e. you're actually writing SQL and interacting through a SQL console. This might be your cup of tea. They also use Deno for the…

> Appwrite is simple to self-host. Like really simple. Like a single line of Docker command simple Is is possible to use Appwrite without Docker? Docker is super-slow on Macs so I tend to run everything natively. With traditional tools (e.g. Postgres, Redis, etc) this is super-easy. I can just `brew install`.

Yes, we are working on a more native alternative with the likes of a Makefile or some Ansible scripts. However it has not been a major priority since we didn't have many community members ask for it yet.

However, we'd be more than delighted for contributions from the community

Re: Show HN: Open-source Firebase Alternative? It's here

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Post by vincentge »

simplehuman wrote: post #16

So, is this firebase API compatible?

No, we're trying to provide similar functionality, but we're not just cloning it down to the API. We have some of our own philosophy, for better or for worse, about what a good BaaS should look like.

Think of it as an alternative, not a clone :)

Re: Show HN: Open-source Firebase Alternative? It's here

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Post by vincentge »

karimmaassen wrote: post #14

Honest question: does any of you use Firebase and why (not)?

I do. If I were to attend a hackathon (which I haven't since 2020), I would use Firebase. It's simple and they sponsor every hackathon I've been to, so I get free credits.

That said, if I attend today and ignore sponsorships, I'd actually get DigitalOcean market place deployment of Appwrite. I honestly think it's quicker to get started with, and I like owning my data ;)

Re: Show HN: Open-source Firebase Alternative? It's here

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Post by ramon »

vincentge wrote: post #22
ramon wrote: post #20

Any plans for Kubernetes compatibility?

We're looking into it. We optimistically want to do it. We haven't committed to doing it, because we're prioritizing some other stuff right now :P

If doing a docker swarm which ports are required? Not clear on installation documentation.

Re: Show HN: Open-source Firebase Alternative? It's here

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Post by eikaramba »

IMHO these are the 3 open source backend/platform -as-a-service solutions you need to have a eye one:

1) Directus (in my view the best offering of features)

2) Supabase (if you want more performance. the admin ui however can only be used for internal access)

3) Appwrite (works good and has its own advantages. however in my case i would rather go with 1&2)

-Strapi is out since v4 (too many really big showstopers. i was a fanboy since v3 but directus just brings more to the table and is way mature)

-feathers.js (more lightweight, but unfortunately lost its momentum. better alternatives are nowadays available)

Re: Show HN: Open-source Firebase Alternative? It's here

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Post by p2hari »

karimmaassen wrote: post #14

Honest question: does any of you use Firebase and why (not)?

I do. I develop lot of MVPs for clients and personal projects.

1. It is the fastest way to build. Auth, notifications, DB, cloud functions, analytics. You have everything you need.

2. Generous pricing. You will be able to get most of the things done with minimal costs on infra.

3. Dev Friendly: Anybody who comes with firebase alternatives, I always look at the toolset. If you look at Firebase, the CLI is amazing.

On top of this, I simply love their emulators. You can test everything before hitting production. All in all, I simply love firebase. If they are able to get the cloud functions with go runtime it will be so nice. (Right now the option is to use Google cloud functions).

Re: Show HN: Open-source Firebase Alternative? It's here

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Post by eldad_fux »

ramon wrote: post #25
vincentge wrote: post #22

Earlier quoted context omitted.

We're looking into it. We optimistically want to do it. We haven't committed to doing it, because we're prioritizing some other stuff right now :P

If doing a docker swarm which ports are required? Not clear on installation documentation.

You just need to open port 80 and 443 for HTTP communication.

Re: Show HN: Open-source Firebase Alternative? It's here

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Post by poindi1 »

_query wrote: post #10

If you're looking for something like Appwrite or Supabase but with a more end-to-end typesafety approach + optimistic updates, check out Thin Backend https://thin.dev/ ( https://github.com/digitallyinduced/thin-backend ) It takes a bit more of a higher level approach to database operations than appwrite, supabase or firebase, which allows us to do things like optimistic updates that are hard to do in other tools. To…

Is it completely open source seems like there is a dependency on ihp-backend? Can someone pls clarify
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