Comment by 999900000999

2 years ago

Thanks for creating Firebase!

It's really the definition of an managed database/datastore.

Do you see InstantDB as a drop in replacement ?

To be honest I don't want to have to worry about my backend. I want a place to effectively drop JSON docs and retract them later.

This is more than enough for a hobbyist project, though I imagine at scale things get might not work as well.

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stopachka  2 years ago

For what it's worth, we designed Instant with this in mind. Schema is optional, and you can save JSON data into a column if you like.

If you wanted to store documents, you could write:

```

useQuery({docs: {}}) // get documents

transact(tx.docs[docId].update({someKey: someValue}); // update keys in a doc

transact(tx.docs[docId].delete()) // delete the doc

```

  • 999900000999  2 years ago

    Thanks for the response.

    2 questions.

    How hard is it to swap our firebase for instant? I've had an amazing time with firebase, but I sorta want to switch to using a completely local solution.

    I have a small lyric video generator, and while I don't care about my own songs potentially leaking, I would never want to take responsibility for something else's data. I basically use firebase for the lyrics afterwards I transcribe them .

    Second, do you offer your own auth or just integrate with other solutions.

    • stopachka  2 years ago

      Glad I could be helpful.

      > How hard is it to swap our firebase for instant? I've had an amazing time with firebase, but I sorta want to switch to using a completely local solution.

      It should be relatively straightforward to switch. If you have any questions, you could always reach to us on Discord [1]

      The only caveat though: Instant is like Firebase; it is not a completely local solution. If you are worried about exposing some data over the internet, I would store the same kind of stuff you were thinking about with Firebase.

      > Second, do you offer your own auth or just integrate with other solutions.

      We offer our own auth. You have magic code emails and Google Sign in out of the box. We also expose auth functions in admin SDK, in case you want to create a custom solution. [2]

      [1] https://discord.com/invite/VU53p7uQcE [2] https://www.instantdb.com/docs/auth

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