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

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Post by burggraf »

tlarkworthy wrote: post #39

Many of these competitors are missing: offline persistence, optimistic updates, local cache, push updates, command pipelining and casual consistency. Which is cool but to me this is missing the main point of Firebase which was about making modern, reactive apps simpler to develop. Appwrite and supabase make CRUD apps easier to write. It's different. I guess Firebase expanded to being used for everything but it was al…

Supabase developer here. We concentrate on the following core features:

Database (PostgreSQL with Postgrest for REST)

Auth (GoTrue)

Storage (S3, or local files if self-hosting)

Edge Functions (Deno, deployed across dozens of regions)

Realtime (a lot of new stuff coming up in this space now at Supabase)

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

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Post by aaaaaaaaata »

codegeek wrote: post #33
eikaramba wrote: post #26

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 wa…

I am a bit confused. How is Strapi (a headless CMS) comparable to Firebase/Supabase/Appwrite ? Aren't they apples and oranges ?

Depends what kind of app you're building, really.

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

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Post by avinassh »

christyjacob4 wrote: post #2

Hi there, Appwrite maintainer here Appwrite v0.14 was just released with 4 new cloud function runtimes, 3 new storage adaptors, 3 new OAuth providers, a precision event model, and many quality of life improvements. We’d love to get feedback on improvements and features as we gear towards v1.0 of Appwrite. TL;DR -> https://github.com/appwrite/appwrite What is an Appwrite? Appwrite is an open source backend-as-a-servic…

What all the features real-time database provides?

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

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Post by christyjacob4 »

npteljes wrote: post #38
ushakov wrote: post #11

i think true Firebase alternative should be compatible with Firebase clients, no?

That would be a "drop-in replacement", which is indeed a type of alternative. But to be an alternative, it's enough to just provide similar functionality.

Exactly..

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

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Post by christyjacob4 »

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.

yes it would be 80 and 443 for http traffic. And the ports that swarm requires for internal communications https://docs.docker.com/engine/swarm/swarm-tutorial/#open-pr...

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

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Post by christyjacob4 »

karimmaassen wrote: post #14

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

I had a couple of side projects running on Firebase until I discovered the open source alternatives. I can self-host on a $10 droplet which makes the costs very predictable
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