PocketBase First Impressions (Code, Example, Deployment, and more!)

[@jeff_tech]

I came across your channel about 2 days ago and the content you put out is fantastic. Please continue!

[@pookiepats]

Thanks!

[@bmdavis419]

Thank you!

[@MrRe-sj2iv]

We need more videos about customizing PocketBase hooks such as: Executing background functions (cronjob) and something similar document events in Firebase Firestore.

[@ninjagaskin]

looking forward to the video about how/where to learn backend deployment. great vid, new subscriber

[@Mazadri]

Really nice video, exactly the informations i was looking for, and well explained ! Thank you a lot 🤠

[@reynaldogalvez6134]

Hi is there a way to import my data from google sheet to pocketbase automatically sort of bulk upload in pocketbase. thanks

[@arno.claude]

Keep going, Ben!

[@chadjones4255]

So what I want to understand is if we are running a remote Pocketbase instance, can we cache it locally during build? For a lot of frameworks like Astro, there would be tens of thousands of requests (many duplicated) during each build and also the need to copy the DB locally for dev. All of that could be simplified and dramatically faster if we could clone or cache parts of the DB locally in certain circumstances like before site rebuild or before dev.

[@wolfoo2931]

How do you handle authorization (who can read/write what records)? I can not find anything about this in the docs?

[@mr_wormhole]

great work, well done!

[@EightSixx]

YAY already using Taskfile!

[@GabrielGasp]

The idea of running a SQLite locally with your app is really interesting but if I'm being honest, I don't trust myself enough to handle my own database like that, how am I supposed to blame someone else when I screw up? 😅

[@fueledbycoffee583]

I would only use auth... i use hosted database solutions lime mongo atlas

[@knarkzel2006]

Just copy the database file regularly.

[@themarksmith]

Crazy useful stuff!

[@artnikpro]

I believe you don't need Docker for Pocketbase. The whole point of pocketbase is it's simplicity, you don't need to orchestrate cloud envoronment for a single binary file. Also, if you go with Docker your server needs to have at least 8Gb of ram, 4 CPUs and a lot disk space (official requirements)

[@linearz]

Someone, somewhere, always wants to complicate things 😂

[@gadgetboyplaysmc]

Did you pull that number out of your ass? 8GB RAM and 4CPU? Can you source that? You're not running Docker Desktop on your web server. Much of that RAM requirements is because of Electron that Docker Desktop ships with. Even a VPS with 512MB with 1vCPU + some swap memory can run 5 containers on Docker. There's not a huge overhead to run containers. That's the whole point of Docker, an isolation environment for minimal, almost negligible cost.

[@greendsnow]

I'm learning go to move away from typescript backend and convert my frontend to jamstack using pocketbase.

[@mohammedaslam2912]

how to make it work serverside? specially authstore and session

[@bmdavis419]

The Pocketbase API pocketbase.io/docs/api-records/

[@Rundik]

The most based base

[@gabefgonc]

hey ben, do we have something like zod for typescript in Golang? Tired of checking if request body is fully filled! If so, can you make us a tutorial? the quality of the videos are insane btw, keep up!

[@bmdavis419]

Not sure, will definitely look into this as I think it would be really useful

[@HannesDev]

Is it possible to use it with Kotlin for android development?

[@bmdavis419]

Yea they have an API that the SDKs just wrap pocketbase.io/docs/api-collections/

[@nyashachiroro2531]

"my SQL as in MY SQL not my SQL as in MYSQL" 🤣🤣🤣🤣 I'm dead. Great video though. Pocketbase is already amazing and it hasnt even reached 1.0 yet.

[@ongkay250]

I love appwrite for my app

[@navaneeth6157]

wow i didn't know we could do this

[@thepashuks]

please do more about pocketbase

[@ericjhuneespa3381]

what do you think of go echo framework ?

[@colbyberger1881]

reminds me of PHP myadmin

[@s_karimeh]

vn tnx

[@wisdomelue]

change your channel name to Mr Go Lang😂

[@phoneywheeze]

you look like Pete Davidson

[@bmdavis419]

I think that is a compliment, so thank you lol

[@Sebastian-ur2rf]

Callback hell 🤣

[@reristavi]

ohh god... you have no idea of what you are actually doing 🤣😂😂

[@bmdavis419]

true

[@adamjones7497]

The best “base” by far, is free base.

[@fueledbycoffee583]

I would actually use it to ""own" my auth. We are currently using firebase auth but we are slowly but surely htting soon the monthly auth limit and actually google cloud products are pretty damn expensive for mid traffic platforms! For everybody that thinks into creating a platform, i would always suggest: Start using gcp/aws/azure, but as soon as you hit 50k+ MAU you in theory can afford to create your own solution or self hosted solutions. you only pay for the hosting of the service, not the ussage itself

[@bmdavis419]

That is actually a really good point, self hosted open source auth solution sounds great

[@henrikvtcodes]

The situation you describe sounds like it'd be better to use a solution like GoTrue. I'm not sure pocketbase would be well suited to 50k MAU. Running instances of GoTrue sounds more scalable partially because you can connect it to a database like Postgres.