Comment by BilalBudhani

2 years ago

I have been following PocketBase since its early day - what I absolutely love about this project is how it actively tries to avoid complexity and focuses on simple yet minimalist approach. Moreover, the ease of deployment by simply uploading a single binary on the server makes it even more attractive.

After they introduced Javascript support in the backend - I feel it became a serious contender to challenge Remix, Next.js etc. frameworks.

Looking forward to v1

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d1sxeyes  2 years ago

I use PocketBase for mostly everything where I need a back end now. I came across a situation where I needed to write a custom SQL join (technically I could have just fetched all the data and done it in Node, I suppose).

I was shocked at how easy it was to write the query even inserting URL parameters and selecting based on the authenticated user only.

Fully recommend for basically everything. Great app. Not sure it would replace Next or Remix, but definitely add to the stack to simplify.

  • BilalBudhani  2 years ago

    Interesting! I haven't made anything serious yet with the PocketBase (mostly due to lack of time & not anything to do with PB).

    I'm curious to know what kind of projects did you build using PB and how was your development experience?

    • d1sxeyes  2 years ago

      Bits and pieces. A bedtime tracking app for my kid, a microblog, a TikTok clone, a budget app, a text-to-speech app with translation functionality…

      Development experience was outstanding. I primarily use SvelteKit and integrate PocketBase for SSR, so I use the SDK almost exclusively and it’s fantastic. Everything just works exactly the way you would expect.

      I can’t imagine anything easier to implement, and as yet, I haven’t found any major gaps in what I can do with it, normally with OOB functionality.

      Development velocity is very high and the developer is super responsive on GitHub. The documentation is very good and kept up to date pretty well.

      My only real concern is that the project has a pretty poor bus factor, otherwise, I’m very impressed.