Comment by mariopt

3 months ago

It would be interesting if Supabase allows me to use that runtime without forcing me to use supabase, being a separated product on its own.

Several years ago, I used MeteorJs, it uses mongo and it is somehow comparable to Supabase. The main issue that burned me and several projects was that It was hard/even impossible to bring different libraries, it was a full stack solution that did not evolved well, it was great for prototyping until it became unsustainable and even hard to on board new devs due to “separating of concerns” mostly due to the big learning curve of one big framework.

Having learn for this, I only build apps where I can bring whatever library I want. I need tool/library/frameworks to as agnostic as possible.

The thing I love about CloudFlare workers is that you are not force to use any other CF service, I have full control of the code, I combine it with HonoJs and I can deploy it as a server or serverless.

About the runtimes: Having to choose between node, demo and bun is something that I do not want to do, I’m sticking with node and hopefully the runtimes would be compatible with standard JavaScript.

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laktek  3 months ago

>It would be interesting if Supabase allows me to use that runtime without forcing me to use supabase, being a separated product on its own.

It's possible for you to self-host Edge Runtime on its own. Check the repo, it has Docker files and an example setup.

> I have full control of the code, I combine it with HonoJs and I can deploy it as a server or serverless.

Even with Supabase's hosted option, you can choose to run Edge Functions and opt out of others. You can run Hono in Edge Functions, meaning you can easily switch between CF Workers and Supabase Edge Functions (and vice versa) https://supabase.com/docs/guides/functions/routing?queryGrou...

> Having to choose between node, demo and bun is something that I do not want to do, I’m sticking with node and hopefully the runtimes would be compatible with standard JavaScript.

Deno supports most of Node built-in API and npm packages. If your app uses modern Node it can be deployed on Edge Functions without having to worry about the runtime (having said that, I agree there are quirks and we are working on native Node support as well).