Firebase Alternatives: Supabase, Appwrite and Nhost

Want to use a cloud backend for your next app? There are more backend as a service solutions besides Firebase out there, and in this video I'll show you three worthy competitors in the BaaS space!

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00:00 Introduction to Backend as a Service
02:16 Supabase the open source Firebase alternative
09:26 Appwrite the open source backend
17:38 Nhost the serverless GraphQL backend
23:54 Comparison of the BaaS Firebase alternatives

#baas #firebase #supabase #appwrite #nhost

[nonefvnfvnjnjnjevjenjvonej]

Tried them all for production apps. Appwrite is the best so far.

[arjunhadke]

Self hosting sounds tough but is quite flexible and may help a lot in the long run. Thanks a lot for all the insights Simon.

[vveerrgg]

Appwrite for the win !!! ... I think that's going to be the backend for my next ionic project. just getting into Docker and it seems like the environment worth investing time into....

... LiKE THIS COMMENT if you also want another vid on building with Appwrite

[gtanmoy]

Just wait for the OFFLINE sync feature from Supabase team. Is there any third party plugins which we can achive the offline sync feature like firebase?

[jaronfort]

It would be nice to see a follow up to this now that things have changed.

[owenwexler]

Appwrite would be a perfect use case for my company since we're already hosted on DigitalOcean and Appwrite has an extension for easy self-hosting on DigitalOcean infrastructure, but their database system really perplexes me. A NoSQL-like API on top of a SQL database (MariaDB), with seemingly, if I'm not mistaken, no functionality for joins or join tables that I can find in the Appwrite documentation, and we use joins and join tables a lot at my company.

If you can really use your own DB with Appwrite, I'll have to do some more digging to figure out how this is done, then it's a very good use case for my company.

Not to mention, if our mobile app goes full native, Appwrite is the only BaaS covered here with an SDK for native mobile apps.

[andreabttrll]

There is also Teta CMS, Teta's new low-code back-end solution vertical on Flutter apps.

[TheSaceone]

16:33 that is a singleton! You could make some videos about how to use design patterns. Not so many examples for Angular+Ionic on YouTube, and IMO it's a very powerful skill for a developer.

[belmo_]

Thanks man, l have been looking for an alternative that could act as an adequate Baas for mobile apps.

[thomas-sinkala]

18:17 Nhost is open source and you can host it yourself if you wish.

[ivanilsonmartins_]

update t-shirt. Lol.
amazing video. I'm even rethinking my choices.

[GlennNickens]

What happened to Parse Platform in the past?

[LolCrazyMovies]

Hi Simon, thanks for the great video as always!
I was wondering, could you make a tutorial about using FCM in Ionic using AngularFire 7? A lot has changed since AngularFire 7 and I haven't been able to figure the push notifications functionality out yet.

[LaszloAlt]

Thanks for the info! Twitter followers may not all be organic. I would definitely look at git insight and possible discord or other channels they have for community size.

[benjaminng]

just have a question, why use the solution mentioned on top? why don't choose something like strapi or directus, they all offer similar things, like Authentication & Permissions, file Storage, user & role, and others, I'm currently looking for a backend for my side project, so not sure which option to select

[vkexplores]

There is another such project "supertokens" which can be self hosted.

[yuberley]

Hi, question. Can supabase be downloaded and the project deployed on another platform? maybe on aws or digitalocean

[geronimovelasco]

When's the new tutorial for the googlemaps capacitor plugin Simon? Haha It would be a nice video I Hope you record a tutorial for that ty

[rudetv]

Please make ionic tutorial with appwrite

[harem_lord-FFM]

Seems like AppWrite is the easiest of all three.