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by harinijan 1719 days ago
BaseRow in my understanding is a no-code database very similar to Airtable, however we are building a low-code platform which shows your Firestore database in an Airtable-like experience. Which means no limitations that comes with a no-code platform like scalability, not synced to your production apps, limited storage, and inability to control access at a granular level, feature limitations.

With Rowy, you can not just view your Firestore data in Airtable-like UI but also build cloud functions, connect to any third party tool, use NPMs and APIs right in the browser without the hassle of CLIs, terminals or native consoles.
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peterthehacker 1719 days ago
What scale have you tested the UI at? Do you have any demo / benchmarks for over 1M rows for example?

Reading through the infinite scrolling PR [1] it looks like scrolling isn’t virtualized (like Airtable’s) so the browser will start choking when it has too many elements in the DOM.

[1] https://github.com/rowyio/rowy/pull/29

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notsidney 1718 days ago
Hey, I’m one of the engineers working on Rowy. We use react-data-grid [1], which has built-in support for virtualized lists rendering. They have demo of a table with 1000 rows and the scrolling stays smooth [2]

[1] https://github.com/adazzle/react-data-grid/ [2] https://adazzle.github.io/react-data-grid/#/common-features

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desireco42 1719 days ago
Hey, thanks for clarifying but what is appealing there is that you can use Postgres for backend and it would work with that. You have very focused solution on Google environment.
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