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Discussion on: Why I switched away from Google Firestore

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Pablo Hdz Martín

What I like the most is the reactive database. Something changes in the database and is changed automatically if you are subscribed in the front end.
How can I get this feature without Firestore? Ty

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Spencer Pauly

Yep, I liked this feature too. Right now I use GraphQL subscriptions in Hasura to get this same functionality. It's pretty convenient to set them up in Hasura too, which is usually a more painful process if you write your own GraphQL server.

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Sagar Bhattacharya

you can look into pouchdb , couchdb pouchdb.com/

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Himujjal Upadhyaya

46kB gzipped!! something like pouchdb-'lite' could have been more popular.
Still better than firebase though.

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Vasyl Boroviak

MongoDB has it built-in. They call it "change streams" I think.

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Tobias Nickel

thanks , that is what I have been looking at for a while. I was impressed by the live sync feature by metheor js, but hated the rest of that framework.

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Thomas Götzsche

This is one of the main selling points for sure. When you do mobile, one of the most difficult things to handle is bad network. With this feature you don't need to worry about http codes, timeouts, retries, etc.