Convex - A better type of backend

Hey everyone! I'm Jamie, one of the creators of Convex. Before Convex, the founders built and ran custom database and storage systems with petabytes of data, millions of requests per second, and billions of users. We managed backend platforms that desperately tried to keep up with the needs of thousands of frontend engineers. What we learned is that traditional databases and backend engineering just aren't good enough anymore. There's just too much time spent on stuff that has nothing to do with your product! Gluing your frontend to your backend, your backend to your database. Managing caches. Waiting for minute-long cloud deployments to test new code. Piping obscure config to Kubernetes. Instead of all this, we believe that you should write your entire full-stack app the same way that you write your front-end. The same methods for abstraction, composition, type safety, and tooling. And now with Convex, you can. Convex is a full-stack TypeScript development platform. It replaces your database, cloud functions, containers, caches, all of it–with a few thoughtfully designed TypeScript libraries that help you sync and store your backend state. Convex ships with: 👉 Out-of-the-box realtime capabilities 👉 Type-safe functions and APIs by default 👉 Convex Actions to enable common third-party API patterns like AI services 👉 An ACID compliant database that enables fully transactional operations 👉 Support for writing cloud functions, cron jobs, and more in pure TypeScript 👉 An amazing dashboard that has your back in development and production We'd love everyone's thoughts and suggestions as we continue to ship.

Launching Convex a few days after the Typescript war. You are survivors.

Convex looks like a promising solution to streamline development. 🚀 Quick question: How does Convex make it easier for developers to collaborate effectively on full-stack app projects?

Congratulations on the PH launch! Had a pleasure of trying Convex out before and I'm really impressed with the product and the team behind it.

I've been using Convex on a personal passion project for about a month now and it's just been a dream. The developer experience is fantastic and the APIs are a true joy to learn and use. I think you've nailed the convention over configuration paradigm—I can't remember being this excited for a platform since my Rails days. Well done and many thanks!

its great.Congratulations on the launch!

I've been using convex for a lot of side projects, and honestly I'm not sure if I even want to go back to original workflow of developing applications. The ease of creating backend functions and hooking them into my frontend (all typesafe I should add) has been game changing. To top it all off, half of the boiler plate code in the frontend goes away since you'll receive websocket events when your convex data changes and your state automatically updates. They have great integrations with 3rd part auth service providers, and deploying the changed backend logic to a production environment is simple. Storing and reading files to a file storage is like 2 lines of code. I highly recommend at least trying out convex once to see for yourself how easy building an application can be.

This looks amazing. Seeing real-time type checking between client and server code is making my mouth water. The future is now. Do you offer any kind of integrations with non-TypeScript clients, like native mobile apps written in Swift and Kotlin?

Congrats on the launch! The product looks feature packed. Would give it a try sometime soon :D

Congrats on the launch! This seems interesting