On: Supabase (YC S20) – An open source Firebase alternative

[seanwilson]

How do the querying features compare to Firebase? Firebase is notorious for having an unintuitive lack of server-side query options when you start using it.

[kiwicopple → seanwilson]

We've begun work on our serverside libraries, but we have a way to go. Baby steps -

Rust: https://github.com/supabase/postgrest-rs

Python: https://github.com/supabase/postgrest-py

These libraries underly the core supabase libraries. You can vote for more libraries here: https://github.com/supabase/supabase/issues/5

[soedirgo → kiwicopple]

There's also one for JavaScript: https://github.com/supabase/postgrest-js

[awalias → seanwilson]

in addition to @kiwicopple's response, you can also:

- use the js lib - https://supabase.io/docs/library/get

- use your RESTful and Realtime endpoints directly - e.g. <my-app>.supabase.co/rest/v1/users?select=first_name,age

- or even just connect to the db directly using your favorite SQL tools/ORM