Discussing the open-source anouncement
@everyone Convex open-source backend released 📖 🛠️ :TypeScript: :rust:
We're very excited to announce the initial open source release of the Convex backend! You can run it on your machine, self host it on your VPS, or just look at how we've built stuff. Jump into #open-source to chat about it.
Also, please ⭐ the repo! https://github.com/get-convex/convex-backend
Read up for details on what we have so far and where we intend to go with all this: https://news.convex.dev/convex-goes-open-source/
GitHub
GitHub - get-convex/convex-backend: Open source single-machine vers...
Open source single-machine version of the Convex backend - get-convex/convex-backend
Convex News
Convex goes open-source
It's been a busy seven months since Convex 1.0 was released. Twenty times as many developers are using Convex every week, and their apps generate 50 times as much traffic on our platform. We've shipped ten significant releases since 1.0, including major features like vector search, preview deployments,
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Wow! Incredible wednesday drop 😄
Going to have to give the source a proper read later but some really interesting choices just reading your readme.
Just - great choice!
Rush - interesting choice, I have used it in the past, interested to hear why you chose this over the other options.
Also interested to hear why you didnt package it all up in a docker container or series of docker containers (docker compose)?
thanks! we have pretty mixed feelings on docker. we'd rather strive to keep it a single clean binary
interesting, would love to hear your opinons sometime