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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: 0.209s | 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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e12e ◴[29 Mar 25 14:47 UTC] No.43515994[source]▶
What does this mean?:

> bknd runs directly inside your frontend app — no separate backend required.

> It supports Postgres

How is the postgres credentials kept secret from the client?

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1. dswbx ◴[29 Mar 25 17:19 UTC] No.43517011[source]▶
bknd would be the "backend part" of your application, managing the schema, exposing REST APIs to access it, secure it, handling media uploads.

The database (postgres, libsql, d1, etc.) is hosted as usual. Fullstack frameworks like Next.js, Remix, Astro, etc. would run bknd on the server side exclusively.

But I see the issue. I should've written "inside your fullstack app" – my bad!