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I was in the exact same position as you one year ago. Then I found Hasura (https://hasura.io) and built Nhost (https://nhost.io). While building Nhost I always had Google Firebase in mind regarding how good they are for the developer experience.

I went through the exercise of replaceing our Firebase with Postgres last year. In the process I built a middleware abstraction that I am opensourcing now : https://supabase.io

As a bonus it even has real-time functionality

Check out postgraphile, and graphile starter - https://github.com/graphile/starter

Combined with graphql-codegen you can essentially generate react hooks from a Postgres schema. It’s awesome - and all typed if you’re using typescript too

May I ask why? I've always found this to be one of the simplest and least painful parts of any web project. And any 3rd party server has inevitably become a problem when the project grew to the point that we wanted something that they didn't have a solution for.

PostgREST does this fairly well.