agentskillexchange Appwrite Open Source Backend as a Service Platform
Appwrite is an open-source, self-hosted backend platform that provides authentication, databases, storage, functions, messaging, and realtime APIs out of the box. It serves as a privacy-first alternative to Firebase and Supabase, packaged as Docker microservices for full data ownership.
Installation
Use the upstream install or setup path that matches your environment:
- docker run -it --rm \
- docker run -it --rm ^
- docker run -it --rm
Requirements and caveats from upstream:
- Appwrite is designed to run in a containerized environment. Running your server is as easy as running one command from your terminal. You can either run Appwrite on your localhost using docker-compose or on any other...
- Before running the installation command, make sure you have Docker installed on your machine:
- --volume /var/run/docker.sock:/var/run/docker.sock \
Basic usage or getting-started notes:
Appwrite Functions - Serverless compute platform to run custom backend logic in isolated runtimes, triggered by events or scheduled jobs.15 runtimes supported.
The easiest way to get started with Appwrite is by signing up for Appwrite Cloud. While Appwrite Cloud is in public beta, you can build with Appwrite completely free, and we won't collect...
Extracted from upstream docs: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/appwrite/appwrite/HEAD/README.md