Back4App vs Contentful
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With Contentful, you can bring your content anywhere using our APIs, completely customize your content structure all while using your preferred programming languages and frameworks. | Back4app accelerates backend development, improves development productivity, reduces time to market, and let you scale applications without managing infrastructure. |
Platform agnostic headless CMS; GraphQL and REST APIs; Fast delivery with global CDNs; Images API; Language and framework agnostic; Extensible web interface; CI/CD-ready; Flexible data; App Marketplace integrations; App Framework for building your own; Scheduled publishing, teams, tasks & comments; Localization with fallbacks | Database
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Stacks 838 | Stacks 31 |
Followers 955 | Followers 120 |
Votes 70 | Votes 18 |
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What are some alternatives to Contentful, Back4App?
Firebase
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Socket.IO
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PubNub
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Pusher
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SignalR
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Ably
Ably offers WebSockets, stream resume, history, presence, and managed third-party integrations to make it simple to build, extend, and deliver digital realtime experiences at scale.
Syncano
Syncano is a backend platform to build powerful real-time apps more efficiently. Integrate with any API, minimize boilerplate code and control your data - all from one place.
Sanity
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NATS
Unlike traditional enterprise messaging systems, NATS has an always-on dial tone that does whatever it takes to remain available. This forms a great base for building modern, reliable, and scalable cloud and distributed systems.
SocketCluster
SocketCluster is a fast, highly scalable HTTP + realtime server engine which lets you build multi-process realtime servers that make use of all CPU cores on a machine/instance. It removes the limitations of having to run your Node.js server as a single thread and makes your backend resilient by automatically recovering from worker crashes and aggregating errors into a central log.
