Show HN: I built an open-source SwiftUI app with an Airtable back end

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Post by kine » Thu, May 07, 2020, 6:11 PM UTC

Show HN: I built an open-source SwiftUI app with an Airtable back end
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Post by Tehchops » Thu, May 07, 2020, 7:27 PM UTC

Nice work!

I've been exploring using AirTable as a potential back-end for read-sometimes/write-rarely data.

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Post by whoisjuan » Thu, May 07, 2020, 7:57 PM UTC

I already use Airtable as a backend for some small internal tools. It definitely does the job but there are some moments where I feel it might be easier and more flexible just to create something on Firebase. From an API perspective storing and retrieving objects in both is equally as easy.

The only reason I went with Airtable is because I needed a GUI to add data manually.

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Post by kine » Thu, May 07, 2020, 7:57 PM UTC

Tehchops wrote: post #2

Nice work! I've been exploring using AirTable as a potential back-end for read-sometimes/write-rarely data.

Thanks! It's fun and definitely useful as long as you're not trying to us it as Redis ;)

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Post by kine » Thu, May 07, 2020, 7:59 PM UTC

whoisjuan wrote: post #3

I already use Airtable as a backend for some small internal tools. It definitely does the job but there are some moments where I feel it might be easier and more flexible just to create something on Firebase. From an API perspective storing and retrieving objects in both is equally as easy. The only reason I went with Airtable is because I needed a GUI to add data manually.

100%. I love Firebase's speed but digging into the data and modifying it through their console is a total pain.

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Post by davyson » Thu, May 07, 2020, 8:18 PM UTC

This is really cool! I’ll definitely take a look at this and maybe fork it when we get onto looking at native apps.

We have built a web app (https://stacker.app) for people who want to use an Airtable backend.

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Post by kine » Thu, May 07, 2020, 8:20 PM UTC

davyson wrote: post #6

This is really cool! I’ll definitely take a look at this and maybe fork it when we get onto looking at native apps. We have built a web app ( https://stacker.app ) for people who want to use an Airtable backend.

Nice! I'll check Stacker out!

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Post by pqb » Thu, May 07, 2020, 8:40 PM UTC

Impressive work.

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Post by lima » Thu, May 07, 2020, 8:45 PM UTC

whoisjuan wrote: post #3

I already use Airtable as a backend for some small internal tools. It definitely does the job but there are some moments where I feel it might be easier and more flexible just to create something on Firebase. From an API perspective storing and retrieving objects in both is equally as easy. The only reason I went with Airtable is because I needed a GUI to add data manually.

Currently migrating a data-heavy Firebase project to plain boring Django. We didn't need the realtime and offline features of Firebase and it's a massive pain to work with.

A regular SQL database and a good ORM is so much more productive. Servers have terabytes of RAM these days.

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Post by agustif » Thu, May 07, 2020, 8:51 PM UTC

You might wanna consider FaunaDB if you want to make the backend a bit more database-like but still serverless.

Their GraphQL API is neat.