Superbass a complete back end for web and mobile applications based entirely on free open source software the biggest challenge when building an app is not writing code but rather architecting a complete system that works at scale products like Firebase and amplify have addressed this barrier but there’s one big problem they lock you into proprietary technology on a specific Cloud platform Superbass was created in 2019 specifically as an open source Firebase alternative at a high level it provides two things on the back end we have infrastructure like a database file storage and Edge functions that run in the cloud on the front end we have client-side sdks that can easily connect this infrastructure to your favorite front-end JavaScript framework react native flutter and many other platforms as a developer you can manage your postgres database with an easy to understand UI which automatically generates rest and graphql apis to use in your code the database integrates directly with user authentication making it almost trivial to implement row level security and like fire base it can listen to data changes in real time while scaling to virtually any workload to get started you can self-host with Docker or sign up for a fully managed account that starts with a free tier on the dashboard you can create tables in your postgres database with a click of a button insert columns to build out your schema then add new rows to populate it with data by default every project has an authentication schema to manage users within the application this opens the door to row level security where you write policies to control who has access to your data in addition the database supports triggers to react to changes in your data and postgres functions to run stored procedures directly on the database server it’s a nice interface but it also automatically generates custom API documentation for you from here we can copy queries tailored to our database and use them in a JavaScript project install the Super Bass SDK with npm then connect to your project and sign a user in with a single line of code and now we can listen to any changes to the authentication state in real time with on off stage change when it comes to the database we don’t need to write raw SQL code instead we can paste in that JavaScript code from the API docs or use the rest and graphql apis directly and that’s all it takes to build an authenticated full stack application however you may still want to run your own custom server-side code in which case serverless Edge functions can be developed with Dino and typescript then easily distributed around the globe.