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I'm a full stack developer and still don't know what supabase does other than being a firebase replacement...

Like seriously are they seriously trying to sell us how difficult is to setup a simple nginx server? Not sarcastic just an old developer that hasn't get this new fad of going "serverless".

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It's not serverless it's a postgrest API over a DB. Which is plenty of backend for many of my purposes. Postgres's RBAC is sophisticated enough to use as your entire auth layer if you know what you're doing with it. After that it's a free rest API.

I'm not like a supabase diehard or whatever but I have used it to great success in a handful of projects, especially early or proof-of-concept stage ones. For me it's not a replacement for nginx it's a replacement for rails.

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