protobuf-rules-gen VS parse-server

Compare protobuf-rules-gen vs parse-server and see what are their differences.

protobuf-rules-gen

This is an experimental protoc plugin that generates Firebase Rules for Cloud Firestore based on Google's Protocol Buffer format. This allows you to easily validate your data in a platform independent manner. (by FirebaseExtended)
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protobuf-rules-gen parse-server
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0.0 9.2
about 2 years ago 8 days ago
C++ JavaScript
Apache License 2.0 Apache License 2.0
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protobuf-rules-gen

Posts with mentions or reviews of protobuf-rules-gen. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-05-10.
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    A long time ago, I was the PM on Firestore security rules, which was intended to solve both of those issues.

    https://github.com/FirebaseExtended/protobuf-rules-gen was the closest we got: declaring types as protobufs (because Google, of course) and then generating both security rules to guarantee validity as well as client types that would match. I wanted to add proto annotations to do additional validity (e.g. add a regex to validate the phone number string was correct, do length checks on strings, etc.).

    The short answer is that backend rules engines, either in their own DSL or bolted on to e.g. SQL, are pretty tough to get right, and have a super steep learning curve. IMO, AWS API Gateway with Lambda Authorizers get this most correct.

parse-server

Posts with mentions or reviews of parse-server. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-12-28.

What are some alternatives?

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mongo-event-sourcing - An open-source fully configurable and extendible tool that enables event sourcing in MongoDB.

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