Convex
The reactive backend
★ 4.7
Reactive backend platform with real-time database, serverless functions, and automatic caching. TypeScript-first with end-to-end type safety and subscriptions.
Features
✓ Real-time reactive queries
✓ Serverless TypeScript functions
✓ End-to-end type safety
✓ Automatic caching and invalidation
✓ ACID transactions
✓ File storage built-in
✓ Scheduled functions (cron)
✓ Vector search
✓ Authentication integrations
Pros
- + Real-time by default
- + Excellent developer experience
- + Type safety end-to-end
- + No infrastructure to manage
- + Great for interactive apps
Cons
- − Vendor lock-in (not portable)
- − Per-developer pricing adds up
- − Learning curve for reactive model
- − Less flexible than raw SQL