# digitallyinduced/thin-backend

🔥 Thin Backend is a Blazing Fast, Universal Web App Backend for Making Realtime Single Page Apps

Repository: https://github.com/digitallyinduced/thin-backend
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/thin-backend
Homepage: https://thin.dev/
Language: JavaScript
License: MIT
License Family: permissive
Topics: postgresql, postgres, database, react
Last push: 2022-11-22T13:23:48+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 32/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-02T17:46:02.011165+00:00)
- activity 0, release rhythm 35, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 1638, "days_push": 1380, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: no_releases
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 1248, forks 30 (observed 2026-08-28T04:04:07.776494+00:00)

## What it is
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
- artifact type: framework
- maturity: maintenance
- function: api-framework, http-server, database, auth, websocket, orm
- domain: web-development, backend, databases, apis
- platform: self-hosted
- tags: postgres, instant-api, realtime, single-page-apps, typescript, crud, react, supabase-alternative, real-time, nodejs, web-server, docker

## Member repositories
- digitallyinduced/thin-backend (main) score 32

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:04:07.776494+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T05:07:52.048810+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/digitallyinduced/thin-backend (fetched 2026-08-28T04:04:07.776494+00:00, sha af176033a84b)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.