Anyone used Realm for their mobile app?
After the mongodb aquisition Realm looks a lot more attractive to indie projects, free tier and user management baked in. Anyone used it? or recommend it?
After the mongodb aquisition Realm looks a lot more attractive to indie projects, free tier and user management baked in. Anyone used it? or recommend it?
Hey Miles,
I know this is a super old post, but just starting to dive into indie hacking on a Realm app and wanted to know if you decided to use it?
Trying to find or create a community of other indie hackers that are using it.
Thanks.
--Kurt
Hey Kurt - for that particular app I did and it works well, there were some teething issues early on and still some documentation missing but by now it should be quite a lot more stable. This is the app I built if you're interested https://apps.apple.com/us/app/packrat/id1490422067?ls=1 it's all Swift, SwiftUI and Realm.
I'm really liking the new property wrappers that are for SwiftUI and interacting with Realm. It's made development so much faster and easier. Not sure if you've seen them, but it's really improved in the last couple of months.
Oh, those look interesting, I actually had some issues that forced me to use a kind of proxy struct in my app for my Realm models, the new changes might let me remove a lot of that code.
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Thanks for the answer. Yeah I haven't found anything like it, I really like building "offline-first" mobile apps with syncing kind of opt-in. I've written my own (not great) sync engines in the past and never picked up Realm as clients usually had a backend in place already and it seemed a bit too pricey for bootstrapped side projects. Excited to try it out in my app.