Supabase (YC S20) – An open source Firebase alternative

Re:Supabase (YC S20) – An open source Firebase alternative by joeyspn on Wednesday May 27, 2020 @11:42AM (#23324969)

Congrats, the project looks solid. It's obviously targeted to JS devs who are familiar with firebase or want an easy/similar abstraction for realtime apps. It's great to have several great frameworks tackling the same problem with different flavours (Hasura, Phoenix, Supabase, etc), all with postgres as first class citizen.

I feel like the key is in the choice for the realtime backend (Phoenix/Elixir). I've built real-time firebase apps (JS) in the past and today my choice would probably be Phoenix. It also saves many LoC (80-90%?), and it's a joy to work with. Reduces the JS fatigue and opens up a new paradigm that makes programming fun again.

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Re:Supabase (YC S20) – An open source Firebase alternative by kiwicopple on Wednesday May 27, 2020 @12:16PM (#23325509)

Realtime is definitely our strongest feature so right now. We started Supabase to solve a problem at our previous startup, where we built a chat application using Firebase. Within a few months we discovered our customers were receiving their chats out-of-order and it took another few more days to figure out it was due to some Firebase quirks.

We migrated to Postgres and started with Triggers/NOTIFY. But that also has some limitations (8000 byte payload limit), so we implemented the Elixir server: https://github.com/supabase/realtime

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