[kaushik_v]

In the video I use Rocketgraph (https://rocketgraph.io/) to build a production grade todos app with Graphql API, Authentication and Postgres Database in minutes. Think of Rocketgraph as a complete backend.

The grand vision is to integrate authentication to as many databases as possible and to isolate the key components of back-end systems and to package it into a single service.

Rocketgraph comes with:

1. Authentication: email/password, social login. Magic link and MFA coming soon.

2. GraphQL API: A Hasura console is provided that GraphQL(ises) Postgres database. So there is no vendor lock-in like Firebase. You can move away when you want to.

3. Postgres DB: An 8GB postgres DB is provided to you pre-configured

4. Serverless functions: Whatever extra functionality you want for your app can be coded here. You just need to connect your Github repo and we compile every push to master as an AWS Lambda function.

5. SDKs to get you started. Plus lots of examples and starter kits.

Plus it's open-source.

I will soon be integrating AWS Appsync + Cognito (configuring and maintaining AWS is super hard. We do it for you) Soon be support for Stripe Payments. If you have a product in the DB, you can connect your stripe and payments and invoices will be taken care of.

So as you can see I am trying to build an all in one back-end service to resolve some of the most common pain points in configuring and managing the most used systems in the world (AWS, Stripe, GraphQL etc)

[neetcode22]

Wow, you built all of this by yourself? Looks really good!

Also, have you heard of Supabase?

I am also interested in learning how you built your auth solution - like built from scratch or made using OS SDKs?

[kaushik_v]

Hey yes, I built it all myself. It's extremely difficult and lonely here. I discovered Hasura and it was a game changer. So I built some solutions on top of it called Hasura-batteries and open-sourced it. Now I am diving into integrating Stripe(No need to connect using the API and create a DB of products, we'll do it for you) as well as Auth providers like AWS Cognito.

You can check out a piece of the work here: https://github.com/RocketsGraphQL/hasura-batteries

And start a discussion there.

Yes I do know about Supabase. Rocketgraph is cheaper(I think they have some data limits whereas I offer a more inclusive single plan), more configurable as I provide Hasura with GraphQL(so easier to use, they don't provide GraphQL) and also they use deno runtime whereas we use simple AWS Lambda functions for your serverless functions so it's much more intuitive to write code. Basically you can hook any of your Github repos and every push to master is pulled by our server, compiled in a Node sand-boxed environment and deployed as a server-less function(I provide a public API endpoint you can use)

[kaushik_v]

Thank you so much!!