I’ve been building my application and love how easy it is to get the front-end of my app up and running, but my application requires some complex data processing that Bubble’s workflows can’t handle, so I’ve been relying on some python scripts to query the Data API, do my processing/logic, and insert updates back into the Bubble DB. It works, but I know I’m going to start hitting limits since the Data API doesn’t allow for bulk updates.
I’d like to re-architect my app to use Bubble.io purely as a front end, which means I need to spin up a database, create an API so Bubble can query my data / send updates, and move my data processing scripts into whatever server this hypothetical back-end would live.
I know this is all something a developer can stand up by themselves with their tools of choice, but I’m much more of a scripter than a full-on developer, and I don’t want to invest a ton of time into building out a custom back-end solution. I’m looking for recommendations for paid services that may be able to provide me what I’m looking for without too much hassle on my end to get up and running.
I imagine many people are using Bubble in the way I’m suggesting, so I’d love to hear the community’s thoughts. Thank you.
I don’t have a link for you, sorry! But in a past life when I was building a startup with code (React.js front-end and AWS micro services backend) there were loads of short courses on Udemy, YouTube etc that would show you how to set up the micro-services.
I would say though that AWS is a bit of a time pit to learn, so I’d suggest looking at Google Cloud (GCP) instead as the learning curve is a lot smaller.
In the case you were using GCP as your backend and say a React front end (a situation dozens upon dozens of tutorials will follow) you’d pretty much do most things the same from a backend perspective if you swapped out the front-end for Bubble. The only difference is connecting the front-end.
In the case of say a react frontend you might use GraphQL to populate you pages with data from the database where in this case you’re just switching out that step for the API connector.
Make sense?
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I’m particularly interested in Dgraph because it is a (very fast) graph database at heart and allows me to model more easily many-to-many data relationships and structures, and to potentially implement a “schema-on-read” data model.
As a scripter you might find both of these services compelling, along with being able to ask very specific questions of the data through GraphQL, and the use of lambda functions which are like scripts that can be included in n8n trigger (event) and process nodes.
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