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Supabase (YC S20) – An open source Firebase alternative

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Re: Supabase (YC S20) – An open source Firebase alternative

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Post by 411111111111111 »

rishav_sharan wrote: post #68
elitan wrote: post #50

Wow, I thought I created this thread in my sleep. This is exactly what we do at Nhost ( https://nhost.io ) too. I usually explains Nhost as Google Firebase, but: - SQL (PostgreSQL) - GraphQL (Hasura) - 100% open source After being both delighted and frustrated about Firebase I decided that something must be done. The developer experience on Firebase is awesome but the tech and the lock-in effect is super bad. This wa…

That sounds a lot like hasura.io as well.

It's almost like I it's an hasura app! Oh,wait..........

Re: Supabase (YC S20) – An open source Firebase alternative

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Post by kiwicopple »

idoby wrote: post #58

Couldn't find the info on the website, does the JS shown in the samples run in the client's browser? If so, I'd be coupling my client code to the implementation details of my server side DB. Nope, no thanks. Too many scars to fall for that again.

> I'd be coupling my client code to the implementation details of my server side DB

[Supabase cofounder] Yes, although you can run this on the serverside too (we do). It's a rapid way to go "mostly ORMless" - you just focus on your database and we can do the repetitive stuff (CRUD)

Re: Supabase (YC S20) – An open source Firebase alternative

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Post by hooksfordays »

sdan wrote: post #53
quickthrower2 wrote: post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This has been around for a while: https://parseplatform.org/

thought parse died a while ago with fb?

When FB/Twitter/whoever dropped it, they open sourced the platform completely — they just weren’t offering managed hosting anymore, and they weren’t maintaining it. This looks like a maintenance effort by the community that has formalized itself

Re: Supabase (YC S20) – An open source Firebase alternative

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Post by kiwicopple »

almostarockstar wrote: post #64
kiwicopple wrote: post #39

Earlier quoted context omitted.

[Supabase cofounder] Firebase is really only bad if/when you decide to move - usually because of scaling/performance issues. For example, you can only query one document per-second. Once you decide to migrate away, it's very painful - but the truth is all migrations are painful. This is one of the reasons we chose postgres. If you want to migrate away, you can just "take your database" with you. PG can scale with the…

>you can only query one document per-second That's not true. You can't query any single document more than once per second, which is very different. You can certainly query many separate documents per second.

Sorry - I intended to write that but I guess I had a freudian slip. You're 100% correct - each document only. Let me put a note

Re: Supabase (YC S20) – An open source Firebase alternative

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Post by 2mol »

This looks great, however at first peek it doesn't mention anything about auth. Do you have any plans for that? For me this is the topic I most want to just delegate to the service.

Dashboard, realtime stuff, etc are great too. RESTful APIs I can of course get with PostgREST [0], which is insanely excellent, so the value I'm looking for is to have everything managed, from hosting/storage, to security, to all the other annoying nitty-gritty that I'm likely to get wrong.

[0]: https://postgrest.org

Re: Supabase (YC S20) – An open source Firebase alternative

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Post by godzillabrennus »

2mol wrote: post #75

This looks great, however at first peek it doesn't mention anything about auth. Do you have any plans for that? For me this is the topic I most want to just delegate to the service. Dashboard, realtime stuff, etc are great too. RESTful APIs I can of course get with PostgREST [0], which is insanely excellent, so the value I'm looking for is to have everything managed, from hosting/storage, to security, to all the othe…

Any thoughts on Auth0?

https://auth0.com/

Re: Supabase (YC S20) – An open source Firebase alternative

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Post by kiwicopple »

2mol wrote: post #75

This looks great, however at first peek it doesn't mention anything about auth. Do you have any plans for that? For me this is the topic I most want to just delegate to the service. Dashboard, realtime stuff, etc are great too. RESTful APIs I can of course get with PostgREST [0], which is insanely excellent, so the value I'm looking for is to have everything managed, from hosting/storage, to security, to all the othe…

See my comments on Auth here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23320443

> We want to nail the auth and we're looking at leveraging Postgres' native Row Level Security. This is a tricky task to "generalize" for all businesses but we have some good ideas (we're discussing in our repo if you want to follow - https://github.com/supabase/supabase)

> RESTful APIs I can of course get with PostgREST

That's what we use! See our supporting libraries:

https://github.com/supabase/postgrest-js

https://github.com/supabase/postgrest-rs

https://github.com/supabase/postgrest-py (coming soon)

Also, I'm a long time user and a huge fan. My previous company is featured on their docs (blog post: https://paul.copplest.one/blog/nimbus-tech-2019-04.html#api-...)

Re: Supabase (YC S20) – An open source Firebase alternative

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Post by elitan »

rishav_sharan wrote: post #68
elitan wrote: post #50

Wow, I thought I created this thread in my sleep. This is exactly what we do at Nhost ( https://nhost.io ) too. I usually explains Nhost as Google Firebase, but: - SQL (PostgreSQL) - GraphQL (Hasura) - 100% open source After being both delighted and frustrated about Firebase I decided that something must be done. The developer experience on Firebase is awesome but the tech and the lock-in effect is super bad. This wa…

That sounds a lot like hasura.io as well.

Yea we use Hasura's GraphQL Engine generating the GraphQL API!
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