digitallyinduced/thin-backend

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1248 stars · 30 forks observed · 2026-08-28

What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded

Thin Backend is a self-hosted backend server that automatically exposes a fully featured, realtime CRUD API on top of a Postgres database, eliminating the need to write REST endpoints or GraphQL resolvers. It ships a typed JavaScript client with React hooks that provide optimistic updates and auto-generated TypeScript types from the database schema.

Use cases

• build a realtime single page app without writing a backend
• instant CRUD API on top of an existing Postgres database
• replace hand-written REST endpoints or GraphQL resolvers
• get auto-generated TypeScript types from my database schema
• add realtime data sync to a React app
• self-host a Supabase/Firebase-style backend

When to choose

• your app is backed by Postgres and mostly needs CRUD plus realtime updates
• you want a typed client with autocompletion and optimistic UI without state management libraries
• you prefer self-hosting over managed BaaS offerings

When to avoid

• you need complex custom business logic or non-Postgres databases
• you need a mature, actively developed project - the last release was late 2022
• your stack is not JavaScript/TypeScript on the frontend

Facets

framework · maturity maintenance

api-framework http-server database auth websocket orm web-development backend databases apis self-hosted postgres instant-api realtime single-page-apps typescript crud react supabase-alternative real-time nodejs web-server docker

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