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Honest question: does any of you use Firebase and why (not)?
I’ve found their lack of a relational database a huge problem for any project that scales beyond trivial complexity.
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Is it completely open source seems like there is a dependency on ihp-backend? Can someone pls clarify
ihp-backend was the "old" name before it was called thin backend. You can find the source code here https://github.com/digitallyinduced/thin-backend and here https://github.com/digitallyinduced/ihp/tree/master/lib/IHP/... (Thin is based on IHP)
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I’ve found their lack of a relational database a huge problem for any project that scales beyond trivial complexity.
It is easy enough to connect from firebase functions to a cloudsql instance and the pricing is pretty good for the lowest tier (which is also easily scaled up). That said, might as well just use gcp cloud functions instead.
But what I really mean is that it would be cool to have Firebase db access SDKs and realtime capabilities, with a relational, non-proprietary database. If you plug in your CloudSQL or another managed database you don't get that, and have to write everything on your own.
Supabase seems to be going in this direction, and while I haven't tried them yet, I certainly see how it's an attractive proposition.
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 ?
Congrats! What are you focusing on to differentiate yourself from Supabase?
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…