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Pocketbase: Open-source back end in one file

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Re: Pocketbase: Open-source back end in one file

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Post by szundi »

kisamoto wrote: post #67
remram wrote: post #65

I am a bit confused, is it the backend's backend? E.g. something that is used by the HTTP server app, like a DBMS would be? Or is it actually the backend, e.g. the frontend (browser) talks to it directly?

It can be the backend itself if you just need auth (both authentication and authorization) and your SQL tables to be a REST API. This often suits frontend single page applications in JS/TS and Pocketbase also provides a JS SDK to ease this (with realtime updates). It's a similar model to Firebase but without the lock-in. However if you want to write more logic you can also import Pocketbase as a library and extend it…

Every tech/stack is a lock-in, you just pay with different currencies and get different challanges at different stages

Re: Pocketbase: Open-source back end in one file

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Post by szundi »

remram wrote: post #87
ilrwbwrkhv wrote: post #77

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You would use it instead of things like Supabase and Appwrite. It gives you a server, a db and easy authentication, authorization with real-time queries like firebase.

Maybe it's not for me, I really don't know what that means. If it only describes itself as "a replacement for " I feel like I'm not the target at all.

Maybe it’s for you even if you don’t get it just now

Re: Pocketbase: Open-source back end in one file

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Post by tiffanyh »

So it's the "Supabase of SQLite"?

Aren't there entire classes of problems that shouldn't exist for SQLite because it's intended to be an embedded database, as opposed to a client/server architecture like Postgres/Supabase?

And as such, I'm confused why this exists.

Re: Pocketbase: Open-source back end in one file

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Post by Ilasky »

overbytecode wrote: post #75
Ilasky wrote: post #23

Been using Pocketbase for almost all of my projects lately. Its realtime database is especially nice to introduce multiplayer functionality with relative ease. It plus SvelteKit has been a dream to get up and running using the JS SDK.

I’m curious how you’re integrating it with Sveltekit? Are you using Sveltekit just as a static generator?

Depends upon the project.

For CRUD apps, sveltekits progressive enhancement and form actions make it quick to to add simple function to the page. You can store the pocketbase instance, pb, in locals and reference it all over the application.

For more multiplayer things, sticking a client-side subscription to a collection allows updates of elements that can be worked with/added/moved around etc.

Re: Pocketbase: Open-source back end in one file

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Post by resoluteteeth »

brabel wrote: post #45
TeddyDD wrote: post #29

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's like saying nginx is better than superbase/firebase. Apples to oranges. You could replicate PocketBase in Readbean, but you would have to implement from scratch: - resources with CRUD API and real time subscriptions - admin UI - authz & authn system

I didn't say it's better. Why are people always misinterperting what they read (it's like you've never had text interpretation classes at school, or logic lessons to undestand how to infer implications from logical statements correctly)? Please read again: I said it's vastly simpler (which may not be better for you!) and lighter (just measure it). The comparison is apt for me because the description "open-source back…

I think people are being a bit harsh but your original comment (especially starting with "It seems to me" which makes it sound like a value judgment) was phrased in a way that did sound a lot like you were implying that redbean was better for the same requirements, although you didn't actually explicitly say that.

I think you would have gotten a more positive reaction if you said something like "As an alternative take on the idea of an "open-source backend in one file, redbean is a much simpler, vastly lighter one-file web server + sqlite DB: https://redbean.dev/" to make redbean isn't necessarily intended to be the same type of "open-source backend in one file"

Anyway, redbean does look really neat even if it's not necessarily totally interchangeable with pocketbase

Re: Pocketbase: Open-source back end in one file

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Post by simonw »

Fire-Dragon-DoL wrote: post #98

I'm not sure I understand what exactly is. I like the tips, but I don't understand: is it an app that I can run on my local machine?

It's a binary called "pocketbase" that you can download and run on your machine. When you run it, it starts a localhost web server. That server includes a web based UI tool that lets you create "collections" (effectively database tables) and insert/update/delete data in them.

More importantly, it provides a JSON API (and a client library) for interacting with those collections.

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