Looks interesting, though I’d hesitate to tie my infra to GraphQL out of the box. Unless I’m mistaken
Open Source Firebase Alternative with GraphQL
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Re: Open Source Firebase Alternative with GraphQL
#12Looks interesting, though I’d hesitate to tie my infra to GraphQL out of the box. Unless I’m mistaken
Most of the users I've seen using Nhost (and Hasura) treat data/the db as the source. Given that you have raw access to postgres, you are also the full owner of your data and you can swap interfaces as you see fit (I've seen users use Hasura internally and not expose it to the internet)
Notice, also, that Hasura has support for REST endpoints.
Re: Open Source Firebase Alternative with GraphQL
#13Looks interesting, though I’d hesitate to tie my infra to GraphQL out of the box. Unless I’m mistaken
Most of the users I've seen using Nhost (and Hasura) treat data/the db as the source. Given that you have raw access to postgres, you are also the full owner of your data and you can swap interfaces as you see fit (I've seen users use Hasura internally and not expose it to the internet) Notice, also, that Hasura has support for REST endpoints.
Ah nice, didn’t catch that thanks. As long as it’s an option lol.
Re: Open Source Firebase Alternative with GraphQL
#14looks more like a Hasura distribution than a distinct tool?
Nhost CEO here. Hasura GraphQL Engine is one of the open source tools we're using for the Nhost stack. But it's "only" one of the open source technologies we're using. Others are: - Postgres. Who doesn't love Postgres? - Hasura Auth: https://github.com/nhost/hasura-auth - Hasura Storage: http://github.com/nhost/hasura-storage - Serverless Functions (Node.js) On top of that we have SKDs in JS/TS/React/Next.js/Vue. And…
Can you tell who develops Hasura Auth and Hasura Storage? You? Or did you fork it and extend it?
Re: Open Source Firebase Alternative with GraphQL
#15It's interesting see people still working in this niche, I think it used to be called "backend as a service"? There were several contenders at one point, but Firebase seemed to "win" several years ago, and has been the last one standing for some time.
Just curious what the market size is for these types of services? It doesn't seem like anyone really uses them; for tech people it's just as easy to spin up an instance in some cloud somewhere. For non technical people, well these types of services still seem to be too complex.
I think the one thing Firebase has going for it, that is a differentiator is it's mobile push service that pushes to both iOS and Android. There aren't many options there.
Re: Open Source Firebase Alternative with GraphQL
#16It's interesting see people still working in this niche, I think it used to be called "backend as a service"? There were several contenders at one point, but Firebase seemed to "win" several years ago, and has been the last one standing for some time. Just curious what the market size is for these types of services? It doesn't seem like anyone really uses them; for tech people it's just as easy to spin up an instance…
Perhaps Forebase was the first one to do it right, the biggest features were Real-Time and as you've mentioned, Push notifications. Everyone else has been attempting to compete. The big win for us is that many of these solutions are open source. Shout-out to Supabase and shout-out to Postgresql which allows for this to be possible.
Re: Open Source Firebase Alternative with GraphQL
#17How does this compare to Supabase? Is this easily self hostable? I'm seeing lots of movement in this space and it's getting harder to keep track.
It looks like it's self-hostable using docker, so a no-go for me.
Re: Open Source Firebase Alternative with GraphQL
#18It's interesting see people still working in this niche, I think it used to be called "backend as a service"? There were several contenders at one point, but Firebase seemed to "win" several years ago, and has been the last one standing for some time. Just curious what the market size is for these types of services? It doesn't seem like anyone really uses them; for tech people it's just as easy to spin up an instance…
AWS now has a firebase copy-cat, Amplify. I thought Parse was still being maintained by the community. Appwrite is another offering in the space.
Re: Open Source Firebase Alternative with GraphQL
#19Looks interesting, though I’d hesitate to tie my infra to GraphQL out of the box. Unless I’m mistaken
If you don’t care for object-level caching, you can always query a GraphQL endpont with just a simple HTTP client.
Re: Open Source Firebase Alternative with GraphQL
#20Earlier quoted context omitted.
Nhost CEO here. Hasura GraphQL Engine is one of the open source tools we're using for the Nhost stack. But it's "only" one of the open source technologies we're using. Others are: - Postgres. Who doesn't love Postgres? - Hasura Auth: https://github.com/nhost/hasura-auth - Hasura Storage: http://github.com/nhost/hasura-storage - Serverless Functions (Node.js) On top of that we have SKDs in JS/TS/React/Next.js/Vue. And…
Can you tell who develops Hasura Auth and Hasura Storage? You? Or did you fork it and extend it?
Both developed in-house from Nhost' engineers and OSS https://github.com/nhost/hasura-storage
https://github.com/nhost/hasura-auth
built to leverage Hasura's features and driven by users needs