[HN Gopher] Show HN: I built an open-source SwiftUI app with an ... ___________________________________________________________________ Show HN: I built an open-source SwiftUI app with an Airtable back end Author : kine Score : 40 points Date : 2020-05-07 18:11 UTC (4 hours ago) (HTM) web link (github.com) (TXT) w3m dump (github.com) | agustif wrote: | You might wanna consider FaunaDB if you want to make the backend | a bit more database-like but still serverless. | | Their GraphQL API is neat. | jmuguy wrote: | I think the main advantage of Airtable is the GUI, does faunadb | have anything like that? | Tehchops wrote: | Nice work! | | I've been exploring using AirTable as a potential back-end for | read-sometimes/write-rarely data. | kine wrote: | Thanks! It's fun and definitely useful as long as you're not | trying to us it as Redis ;) | whoisjuan wrote: | I already use Airtable as a backend for some small internal | tools. It definitely does the job but there are some moments | where I feel it might be easier and more flexible just to create | something on Firebase. From an API perspective storing and | retrieving objects in both is equally as easy. | | The only reason I went with Airtable is because I needed a GUI to | add data manually. | kine wrote: | 100%. I love Firebase's speed but digging into the data and | modifying it through their console is a total pain. | lima wrote: | Currently migrating a data-heavy Firebase project to plain | boring Django. We didn't need the realtime and offline features | of Firebase and it's a massive pain to work with. | | A regular SQL database and a good ORM is so much more | productive. Servers have terabytes of RAM these days. | kyawzazaw wrote: | Was using Firebase for a small project to store non- | relational Data. Switching to JSON was much more easier. | tschellenbach wrote: | Django + DRF is pretty amazing in terms of productivity | davyson wrote: | This is really cool! I'll definitely take a look at this and | maybe fork it when we get onto looking at native apps. | | We have built a web app (https://stacker.app) for people who want | to use an Airtable backend. | kine wrote: | Nice! I'll check Stacker out! | pqb wrote: | Impressive work. | kine wrote: | Thank you | fiveSpeedManual wrote: | Oh very cool! Love the idea of using a third-party service to | store data for simple projects, mobile apps included! | | If anyone is looking for a similar solution, a place to dump data | for personal projects, check out Pantry | (https://getpantry.cloud/). It lets you store JSON and has a | simple API. ___________________________________________________________________ (page generated 2020-05-07 23:00 UTC)