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Maybe I'm just not the target audience, but I'm still somewhat confused on what supabase actually is. All I could find was that it was firebase but open source,
by contravariant 6y ago
Maybe I'm just not the target audience, but I'm still somewhat confused on what supabase actually is. All I could find was that it was firebase but open source, which tells me nothing as I'm not overly familiar with firebase (and firebase's description didn't help me understand which parts supabase tries to replicate). Literally the only way I could become familiar with firebase enough to understand how this is a good alternative is if I decide not to use supabase and go with firebase instead.
- awalias 6y agowe provide a layer on top of postgres which includes: auto-generated CRUD apis that update as you change your schema, a realtime api so you can listen to all the changes happening in your database over websockets, and now an auth system to register users and control which data they have access to without having to write any middleware what it boils down to is writing apis and connector code to your database can be a laborious process - we're automating that part away
- contravariant 6y agoSo am I right in thinking it's essentially an SDK for building CRUD web applications?
- ies7 6y agoMy experience with supabase start with their realtime server. An Elixir server (Phoenix) that allows you to listen to changes in your database via websockets. It’s like Postgresql Notify with some extra features like Debezium+Kafka
- kanobo 6y agoIt is a database you can easily update and watch for changes in your website's javascript. Now you can also log people in with the same service. With those two you can move much of the logic that was traditionally done on the server onto the client-side.