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Re:Rowy: Open-source Airtable alternative on Google Cloud by harinijan on Tuesday October 05, 2021 @11:15AM (#28760578)
BaseRow in my understanding is a no-code database very similar to Airtable, however we are building a low-code platform which shows your Firestore database in an Airtable-like experience. Which means no limitations that comes with a no-code platform like scalability, not synced to your production apps, limited storage, and inability to control access at a granular level, feature limitations.

With Rowy, you can not just view your Firestore data in Airtable-like UI but also build cloud functions, connect to any third party tool, use NPMs and APIs right in the browser without the hassle of CLIs, terminals or native consoles.

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Re:Rowy: Open-source Airtable alternative on Google Cloud by peterthehacker on Tuesday October 05, 2021 @11:31AM (#28760811)
What scale have you tested the UI at? Do you have any demo / benchmarks for over 1M rows for example?

Reading through the infinite scrolling PR [1] it looks like scrolling isn’t virtualized (like Airtable’s) so the browser will start choking when it has too many elements in the DOM.

[1] https://github.com/rowyio/rowy/pull/29

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Re:Rowy: Open-source Airtable alternative on Google Cloud by notsidney on Tuesday October 05, 2021 @09:50PM (#28768267)
Hey, I’m one of the engineers working on Rowy. We use react-data-grid [1], which has built-in support for virtualized lists rendering. They have demo of a table with 1000 rows and the scrolling stays smooth [2]

[1] https://github.com/adazzle/react-data-grid/ [2] https://adazzle.github.io/react-data-grid/#/common-features

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Re:Rowy: Open-source Airtable alternative on Google Cloud by desireco42 on Tuesday October 05, 2021 @03:23PM (#28764350)
Hey, thanks for clarifying but what is appealing there is that you can use Postgres for backend and it would work with that. You have very focused solution on Google environment.
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