Is Appwrite Ready to Put Out Firebase? 🔥
summary
Appwrite is presented as a practical open‑source, self‑hosted alternative to Firebase: a stack started in 2019 with ~30,000 GitHub stars, running about 20 Docker containers per instance. The demo showed a QR‑entry voting app with realtime votes, and highlighted features: 36 authentication providers, enforced collection schemas with a newly added relational option, image transforms in storage, REST/CLI/GraphQL APIs, deployable database schema, and multi‑runtime cloud functions (11 runtimes); Appwrite Cloud is in closed beta and audience voting favored Appwrite.
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chapters (14)
- 0:00Introduction
- 3:52Vote app
- 5:38Setup tools
- 8:50Compared interfaces
- 11:17Authentication
- 14:28Databases
- 17:45File storage
- 21:17Cloud functions
- 22:42Other features
- 24:07Extra services
- 25:30REST API & CLI
- 28:38Drawbacks
- 31:05Community & visibility
- 33:54Conclusion & alternatives
