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Poor Man's Back End-as-a-Service (BaaS), Similar to Firebase/Supabase/Pocketbase

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200 points dcu | 1 comments | 03 Jul 25 15:35 UTC | HN request time: 0.207s | source
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CharlesW ◴[03 Jul 25 17:03 UTC] No.44457094[source]▶
Pocketbase is already the poor man's BaaS, and is minimalist compared to the two others mentioned.

> Data stored in human-readable CSVs

The choice to not use a database when two near-perfect tiny candidates exist, and furthermore to choose the notorious CSV format for storing data, is absolutely mystifying. One can use their Wasm builds if platform-specific binaries offend.

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1. skeeter2020 ◴[03 Jul 25 17:16 UTC] No.44457217[source]▶
I agree on both your main points. It's not like PB has a bunch of cruft and fat to trim. The BD of the project is very aggressive in constraining scope, which is one of the reasons it's so good. The CSV-thing feels like an academic exercise. The fact I can't open an SQLite database in my text editor is a little thin, considering many tools are lighter weight than text editors, and "reading" a database (any format) is seldom the goal. You probably want to query it so the first thing you need to do here is import the CSV into DuckDB and write a bunch of queries with "WHERE active=1"