Appwrite: getting started

[bangank36]

Summary

• Getting started with Appwrite functions to compare the features with Firebase, if things go well, we can replace Firebase Functions with Appwrite

• Install Appwrite CLI

  • https://appwrite.io/docs/command-line

• Try the function template , fork the node/starter example

  • Which CLI command to run for local developing?
  • Getting tucked at appwrite login, since appwrite has cloud version, the server step should be https://cloud.appwrite.io/v1 instead of http://localhost/v1
  • If account is linked to github, we should create new password by visit /account and put same password to old and new inputs

• Local development support

  • #5425

  • Real example

  • Steps:

    1. Rewrite example main.js to common js syntax
    2. Pass new methods log and error to mock server to comply with new syntax of Context

• Init project

  • appwrite init project
  • appwrite init function: this will create a functions folder with /src inside, I guess we may need to copy the source from template to this

• Deploy function

  • appwrite deploy function: not found on cloud console, had to connect to git repo manually

• Appwrite v Firebase

  • The context in Appwrite function is an Object, while in Firebase it is separate param
  • Appwrite context will have an error() method, therefore should avoid using the error as error value in catch()

Reference

N/A