NHost

Nhost is a backend platform assembled entirely from open source software you could run yourself anyway. A PostgreSQL database sits under an instant GraphQL API from Hasura, with authentication, file storage and serverless functions around it, so a front-end team gets a working back end without writing one.

Each piece stays a separate open source service rather than a proprietary bundle. Auth and storage are maintained in the same repository, functions run on Node.js in JavaScript or TypeScript, and the SQL and GraphQL layers are the ones you already know how to debug.

Three ways of running it are documented, each suited to a different stage of a project.

• Hosted platform: sign in, create an app and start building against it immediately.
• Local development: the CLI creates a local environment that tracks database migrations and Hasura metadata.
• Self-hosting: the whole stack runs from an example docker compose file, since every component is open source.
• Client library: the JavaScript client signs a user in and sends GraphQL requests in a handful of lines.
• Frontend agnostic: quickstarts cover Next.js, React and React Native, and any framework works against the API.

The CLI installs through Homebrew, a shell script, Nix or any JavaScript package manager, and three commands, login, init and up, bring an environment online. Full documentation and framework quickstarts sit alongside the repository for the parts this summary skips.