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Horizon 1.0

Realtime, open-source backend for JavaScript apps

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Ben Tossell
@bentossell · Community Lead, Product Hunt
You can read more about the launch here but essentially Horizon includes: - A backend server built with Node.js and RethinkDB that supports data persistence, realtime streams, input validation, user authentication, and permissions - A JavaScript client library that developers can use on the frontend to store JSON documents in the database, perform queries, … See more
Andy Parkhills
@aparkhills · Application Developer
Looks like it is a great platform, but I would like to see some type of a "showcase" page that lists who have been using it.
Joshua Tabansi
@tabansi · Founder, Courtier
I'm so hyped to try this out
Parker Agee
@parkeragee · Software Engineer
Exciting stuff! And I see someone has already created a boilerplate project with it: "A boilerplate for developing react+redux applications with rethinkdb/horizon as realtime database and express for the server." https://github.com/flipace/lovli.js
Élie Slama
@elieslama · Freelance Web Developer & Designer
This kind of product is removing so much hassle from the backend dev... I think that the number of backends built from scratch will strongly decreased in the next years with this market being more and more interesting and solid. I will try this out !