A Self-Hosted back end solution in Node.js
Hello everyone! I want to introduce you to the project I've been working on for some time! It's called Conduit and it's a new platform to build your next application on. I've been working with similar solutions since 2014, beginning with Parse (even after it was made open-source), moving to firebase and then mostly sticking to custom backends. On 2017 I founded a Software Development agency and quickly realised that if we were to improve quality and increase speeds we need a platform to help us do that. Parse was kind of outdated for us at that point, and Firebase hasn't (even after so many…
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Conduit is a self-hosted backend platform built on Node.js designed for developers and development agencies building applications. It offers an alternative to existing solutions, providing flexibility for projects beyond simple MVPs while avoiding front-end logic bloat and serverless function limitations. The platform is intended to improve development quality and speed through a customizable backend infrastructure that developers can host and control themselves.
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Hello everyone! I want to introduce you to the project I've been working on for some time! It's called Conduit and it's a new platform to build your next application on. I've been working with similar solutions since 2014, beginning with Parse (even after it was made open-source), moving to firebase and then mostly sticking to custom backends. On 2017 I founded a Software Development agency and quickly realised that if we were to improve quality and increase speeds we need a platform to help us do that. Parse was kind of outdated for us at that point, and Firebase hasn't (even after so many years) caught up to the flexibility the former provided. You can do MVPs yes, but you end up moving logic to the front-end or use the serverless functions that have many limitations and slow cold-start times. So for me and my dev team, it wasn't a solution for anything further than authentication management and push notifications. So, back in 2020 I begun working on Conduit, with 3 targets: Provide common functionality out of the box, do not limit devs and lastly it should work in the same philosophy a custom backend would. This meant effectively no runtime overheads (or at the very least only minor ones), a flexible API, micro-service based architecture with each service housing a particular set of features (ex. Authentication, Database, Email etc) and of course it uses gRPC for service-to-service communications so devs can create new modules from whatever language and/or framework they want! Fast-forward in 2022, we've already used in 5 production projects for clients. Our front-end teams love it, our backend teams have more free time than ever to work in more complex problems, and bugs in production have been reduced drastically. It even withstood a user surge in one project were we had more than 10.000 req/min (we spun up more instances to account for the load). I'd love to answer any and all questions you have about it! And I hope you like it enough to give us a star in GitHub :D Links: website: https://getconduit.dev/ GitHub: https://github.com/ConduitPlatform/Conduit
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