This api call returns an array of about 8,000 items in concise JSON. Nothing crazy, in fact, quite a small payload relatively speaking. It might be time to move on.
Anyone have suggestions for other ‘bubble like’ products?
Regarding the topic category… Idea here: Bubble, stop driving away loyal users with absurd pricing. I can’t even confidently forecast workload fees for clients because of stuff like this.
Was it your database that took a minute to reply?
That’s probably your issue.
Its a single API call that does not touch the database in any way.
Also a brand new app with 90 total database items with simple text/number fields. Not lists.
It says it took 64 seconds for the API call to happen. The database you’re calling is slow.
I run it in the API connector and Postman with a little under 0.25 seconds in response delay.
Interesting.
Yeah I feel for ya. That’s no fun. Maybe bubble takes a long time to process those or something.
Back on topic: Alternatives?
Uh, Nah not really. If you know JavaScript, builder.io is doing some great things. I don’t think any other no-code builders come close to bubble right now. Lots are closing the gap.
False.
don’t leave me hangin’
Yea I come from a traditional coding background. I’ll check it out.
In my opinion from countless times I have run into similar issues in different contexts… It seems like Bubble simple can’t, or won’t parse JSON efficiently. Client side JSON parsing is horrendous. It kind of seems like server side is the same.
Of the 64 seconds I would bet that >63.5 were spent parsing JSON.
Serverless functions is the way.
Serverless functions + ChatGPT + Sheer Dumb Luck = No-Code?
Don’t get me wrong - I’ve fallen in love with Cloudflare’s serverless functions (Workers) but they are code. And half the time when I ask ChatGPT for help with Workers it talks about Lambda functions when I clearly ask about Cloudflare. So I really think the ChatGPT part isn’t quite there for it to be no-code.
People think AI can just make the sandwich for you. It’s up to you to gather the ingredients before the AI can put the sandwich together.
