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Show HN: Bknd – Firebase alternative that embeds into any React stack

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50 points dswbx | 1 comments | 25 Mar 25 14:34 UTC | HN request time: 0.417s | source

I built bknd because I was tired of stitching together auth, file storage, and database APIs every time I started a new project. Existing solutions were either too hard to extend, too basic, or required a separate deployment.

bknd runs directly inside your frontend app — no separate backend required. It works with Next.js, Remix, Astro, React Router. It also runs standalone on Cloudflare Workers, AWS Lambda, Bun, or Node.

It supports Postgres, LibSQL (Turso), D1, SQLite and has adapter-based storage. You get instant APIs, multi-strategy auth, media handling and a built-in Admin UI.

Curious what you’d build with it, feedback welcome!

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jfengel ◴[29 Mar 25 15:09 UTC] No.43516144[source]▶
How do authentication and authorization work? Like Firebase?

(I haven't used a system like that. I'm intrigued by the idea of a backend that's just a database but it weirds me out not to have to write a layer that says who can read what. Exposing the database that nakedly feels super dangerous.)

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1. joshuanapoli ◴[29 Mar 25 15:19 UTC] No.43516219[source]▶
Broken (missing) auth is pretty common with Firebase/Supabase. It's a developer mistake that could happen in any kind of back-end, but I think that traditional back-end frameworks usually have better conventions that make the mistake less likely.