Does it support custom backends?
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#22Does it support custom backends?
There are maybe too many backend implementions: https://github.com/fireproof-storage/connect/tree/main/src
And writing a custom one is super-easy (docs coming soon, for now here is the interface): https://github.com/fireproof-storage/fireproof/blob/c4462c8a...
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#23Creator of Apache CouchDB here. Fireproof is a very clever system for building secure, collaborative apps. Your apps can work offline and when connected automatically sync changes to local storage and display them immediately to the UI. It has much of that same CouchDB magic with almost no complexity or headache on the backend. Very coo…errr…hot!
User of Couchdb for similar use case...been keeping up to date on a parallel branch of my solution using fireproof instead of couch. Still early, but great potential...stumbled onto fireproof because I was about to write an adapter for couch (well Pouch actually, but same same) to replicate in a similar manner to fireproof.
We are working on transparent replication to Postgres JSON which will make it a lot easier to adopt.
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#24One of my favorite use cases for Fireproof is storing and searching across vector embeddings. It can act as a RAG for LLMs, operating on the backend for all clients, and/or the frontend for customized or offline scenarios.
Yeah, that seems like an ideal application for Fireproof. I just built a RAG application for cannabis retail data and we could have benefited from some of the realtime support.
I wrote a "smart book" project with vector search in the browser with Fireproof. Here is the vector integration: https://github.com/jchris/smart-book/blob/e2ab5d3ee94846e6ac...
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#25A real solution for real world applications!!!
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#26I wrote a demo with Firebase to sync a bunch of music data between N web clients. EZ-PZ. All of the integrity stuff was icing on the cake, but basically it was an ultra-simple way to replicate data btwn web app users, without worrying about the server side at all.
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#27I wrote a demo with Firebase to sync a bunch of music data between N web clients. EZ-PZ. All of the integrity stuff was icing on the cake, but basically it was an ultra-simple way to replicate data btwn web app users, without worrying about the server side at all.
Here's Mykle's project https://msl.mykle.com/2024/10/bloopernet-fp-a-serverless-web...
We'll be doing a drum machine bike ride in Atlanta in December. Ping me on discord if you want to join.
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#28Are there tutorials available?
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#29Are there tutorials available?
The best starter is the React Tutorial in our docs: https://use-fireproof.com/docs/react-tutorial/
We are updating this example to the latest right now, it shows how team chat can be implemented with database sharing. https://github.com/fireproof-storage/firehouse-chat
This drum machine is pretty forkable as well: https://github.com/fireproof-storage/bloopernet
You can also get started by clicking the "Edit in CodePen" button on our home page, which is just a JavaScript and HTML app.
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#30I had recently been experimenting with pouch/couchdb, and got it working locally, then came across a post on reddit about Fireproof. I really liked how it sounded - like the evolution of pouch/couch. So I set it up on a node app - it works great locally - import { fireproof } from '@fireproof/core' const db = fireproof(dbname) db.put(doc) async read(id) { if (id) return await db.get(id) return await db.allDocs() } Th…
Thanks for the feedback. That is a bridge we are crossing now. We started with open source backends for maximum coverage, and are standing up Fireproof Cloud now as the easy default. If you click "inspect data" in the demo CodePen app, it will show you a live replication in our dashboard. We'll be adding auth and sharing controls soon, so you should be able to build basic apps with just Fireproof and an HTML host.
Thanks, looking forward to all that - will keep an eye out.