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If you love hasura and want something like firebase, please check out the tutorial with hasura + RxDB. It is like having a firebase with better offline-first and more features and of course without vendor lock-in.

https://hasura.io/blog/building-an-offline-first-web-app-wit...

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What I liked with Firebase was how easy and fast everything was. One-click create a new project and everything was ready to use.

It's this developer experience I want to mimic with Nhost. By providing a managed backend with simple to use js-sdk (https://github.com/nhost/nhost-js-sdk).

I'm a web entrepreneur and for my project i've been using Parse server project (1) implementation by Back4app (2). For the non initiated, Parse server is a API server module for Node/Express + mongo + websocket and stuff you need to run a commercial app like auth, role management et all.

We chose this because :

1.Open source (no vendor locking although now i'm sure if i had to move from b4a it would be a small PITA 2. Ready to use 3. actively maintained (graphQL have been implemented although we have not used it yet) (3)

My question is : should i invest time on discovering nhost for my next POC ?

(1) : https://github.com/parse-community (2) : https://www.back4app.com/ (3) : https://docs.parseplatform.org/graphql/guide/

Yes! The main advantages for me with the Hasura/Nhost stack is:

1. SQL (Thanks PostgreSQL)

2. Instant realtime GraphQL (Thanks Hasura)

3. Zero vendor lock-in

> 3. Zero vendor lock-in

This is wrong. For basic features that are absolutely needed for a real-life app you will need the "Pro" hasura license.

No you don't.

I had the opposite experience with Firebase.

Amazing at first, but quickly fell apart when I had to implement any sort of meaningful business logic.

Yes I agree with you. With Hasura there are 3 main ways to handle business logic. We use the first one at Nhost and it's working (and scale) very well.

1. https://3factor.app/

2. Actions - https://hasura.io/docs/1.0/graphql/manual/actions/index.html

3. Remote Schema - https://hasura.nhost.io/console/remote-schemas/manage/schema...

I know Hasura is actively working on this exact issue and they just released Actions (second option) and I think we will start to see a standard/best practice approach to business logic soon.

Having tried remote schemas and reading about actions - I should say it doesn't feel right.

@elitan - just checking nhost. Features sounds promising.

Did you use hasura for building nhost's backend as well ?

Yes Nhost is built on the same stack you get with a new Nhost project.

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