So I’ve been working on learning a new backend stack to follow through on some ideas I want to code out and it turns out there are quite a lot of batteries included offerings out there (sometimes referred to as BaaS offerings). Many of them are similar to Firebase in that they bundle data, storage and AA(authentication/authorization) and other useful bits together with slick management interfaces. All of these offer a relatively quicker path to get up and running with a app by bundling features together for a backend. I’m researching them so I thought I’d share what I’ve found.

I’m going to stick with the obviously somewhat open source ones here:

• SupaBase
• Hasura
• AppWrite
• SpaceCloud
• Parse
• Kuzzle
• Hoodie

Some that are open source license ambiguous, not that I’m one to judge.

• FireHouse
• Deployd

Some of these are actually wrappers for other services and applications of the same type but with different visions, offerings, [ENTER SOME SUCH DISTINGUISHING FEATURE HERE].

• Nhost
• Back4App

And some are more simply ORM like middleware offerings. No batteries included, but sometimes you don’t need batteries cause you’re working with anti-matter or something. I’ll again stick with the apparently open source offerings that include PostgresDB here.

• PostGraphile
• PostGrest
• Hasura’s engine also runs standalone
• Prisma