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Fanout vs Back4App: What are the differences?
Fanout: Realtime APIs made simple. Fanout makes it easy to build realtime APIs and apps. The product is a cross between a reverse proxy and a message broker. Receivers subscribe to channels, and published data is delivered in realtime; Back4App: An easy-to-use, flexible and scalable backend based on Parse Platform. It allows developers to create apps faster building the backend with no code, host with no infrastructure hassles and scale with no technical locks.
Fanout and Back4App belong to "Realtime Backend / API" category of the tech stack.
Some of the features offered by Fanout are:
- Reverse proxy -- integrate realtime with any level of your technology stack, not just your front end.
- Interoperable -- Add realtime to any API, no matter your backend or database, without changing any of your existing API contracts.
- Open -- cloud or self hosted, it’s up to you. We don’t believe in vendor lock-in.
On the other hand, Back4App provides the following key features:
- Cloud functions
- Push notifications
- User management
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Pros of Back4App
- Graphql support3
- Great documentation2
- Fastest and most complete backend as a service2
- Open source backend as a service2
- Easily clone an app2
- CLI tool1
- Support via chat1
- Partner program1
- Free database backup1
- Run cloud code1
- Push notification made easy1
- Data export and import1
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What is Back4App?
Back4app accelerates backend development, improves development productivity, reduces time to market, and let you scale applications without managing infrastructure.
What is Fanout?
Fanout makes it easy to build realtime APIs and apps. The product is a cross between a reverse proxy and a message broker. Receivers subscribe to channels, and published data is delivered in realtime.
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What are some alternatives to Back4App and Fanout?
Heroku
Heroku is a cloud application platform – a new way of building and deploying web apps. Heroku lets app developers spend 100% of their time on their application code, not managing servers, deployment, ongoing operations, or scaling.
Firebase
Firebase is a cloud service designed to power real-time, collaborative applications. Simply add the Firebase library to your application to gain access to a shared data structure; any changes you make to that data are automatically synchronized with the Firebase cloud and with other clients within milliseconds.
Parse
With Parse, you can add a scalable and powerful backend in minutes and launch a full-featured app in record time without ever worrying about server management. We offer push notifications, social integration, data storage, and the ability to add rich custom logic to your app’s backend with Cloud Code.
Backendless
It is a development and runtime platform which simplifies and shortens mobile application development process. The platform removes the need to develop backend functionality by providing reusable server-side services via APIs. The APIs are packaged into native libraries available for all major client-side environments - Andoid, iOS, JavaScript, .NET, ActionScript and REST. The default backend logic can be modified with custom server-side code. The platform is available as an online service and a downloadable Enterprise product which can be deployed in any environment.
Kinvey
Kinvey makes it ridiculously easy for developers to setup, use and operate a cloud backend for their mobile apps. They don't have to worry about connecting to various cloud services, setting up servers for their backend, or maintaining and scaling them.