[Plugin Request]: Alternative Firebase Back-ends

[SaschaValentin]

Dear Community,

as I mentioned on this discussion with @DmitrySharabin mavoweb/mavo#948 (comment), I´d really like to see an open source alternative to Firebase back-end with real-time capability. There are quite a few of these - most popular for sure Supabase, Appwrite or RethinkDB. I suppose there could be a high interest for this, because you are not longer locked-in in Firebases. Would be very nice.

Thanks!

[LeaVerou]

Totally agree!

In terms of logistics and timeline, we are currently in the process of extracting Mavo's backend code into a separate JS library (check out https://madata.dev for an early alpha), that we then plan to re-integrate into Mavo, replacing (most of) its own ad hoc Backend code. To avoid duplicate effort, we'd likely be directly implementing these as Madata backends, so Mavo support would be blocked on the much bigger project of replacing its backend code with Madata.