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8base Reviews: 4.5/5 — Highly Rated
8base lets users build, run and scale powerful mobile and web apps using front-end development skills. With 8base, front-end developers can create new business applications 10x faster without relying on back-end developers and DevOps through features that help simplify the development process.
| Capabilities |
API
CLI
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|---|---|
| Segment |
Small Business
Mid Market
Enterprise
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| Deployment | Cloud / SaaS / Web-Based |
| Support | 24/7 (Live rep), Chat, Email/Help Desk, FAQs/Forum, Knowledge Base, Phone Support |
| Training | Documentation |
| Languages | English |
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- GUI database managment - Branching environments - Built-in API Explorer
- Migration generation/commiting - Build times - The decision to remove one-to one relations (Guys, it's a DB management tool, 1-to-1 is one of the core relation types that should be always available).
It saves me the hassle of creating my own GraphQL backend and managing it in addition to my frontend projects. It also helps me with type definitions and syncing data with my team.
The most interesting functionality for 8base is the queries and mutations it creates when a table schema is created, which makes time efficient. Also the ability to use the UI to make changes in the tables.
There is some stuff that can be improved as for example, the queries that can be used in the tables are quiet limited and very slow sometimes for bulk operations. Another thing that does not make a lot of sense is that relations between tables are created in weird ways that sometimes make it impossible to do certain mutations. Another thing is that the changes made on the tables directly are soft, they are not really 100% reflected on the database and that creates a mix of data that does not make sense at all. Also documentation is tremendously outdated.
Saving time on the creation of the schemas and queries to make operations with the data inside a database
1) a truly unique platform, which has no analogues at the moment 2) convenient development tools 3) technical support that is ready to help - up to direct contact with the developers of the platform
1) sometimes (quite often, actually) there are various bugs during deployments, due to which the work can stop before they are fixed - the platform is definitely not completely stable 2) even if deployments are made without errors, they take a VERY long time - sometimes it can take up to 20 minutes 3) the absence of a public changelog - the development team working with the platform may not be aware of breaking changes at all, if any 4) closed source code - perhaps 8base would be more suitable for the model that, for example, Hasura uses 5) not very good documentation, which practically does not reflect real cases of using the platform - a lot of knowledge about it (including knowledge about various "pitfalls") is kept in the minds of developers, and is obtained through the experience of using the platform, and not from the docs
1) no need to think about project infrastructure - the platform provides a convenient and ready-to-use backend 2) no need to think about the organization of the database due to a fairly convenient visual representation that hides implementation details (for example, relationships), and migrations 3) the platform also provides a convenient way to manage user permissions