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by madamelic 420 days ago
That is the root of the problem with these batteries-included frameworks: lock-in.

Once you encounter a problem they either don't want to solve or haven't solved, your only choices are either:

- start layering on hacks (in which case you quickly get into case where no one and nothing else could help you)

- decide not to do that-thing

- do a rebuild to get rid of the batteries-included.

Personally I think something Supabase is great for toy projects that have a defined scope & no future or a very early startup that has the intention to rebuild entirely. Just my opinion though, maybe others feel more comfortable with that level of lock-in.

Even something like Heroku is miles better because they keep everything separated where your auth, database, & infrastructure aren't tightly coupled with a library.

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By comparing supabase to Heroku, you demonstrated that you don't actually understand what it is...