Appwrite Has a Free API — Here's How to Build a Full Backend in 10 Minutes

Why Appwrite? Appwrite is an open-source backend-as-a-service that replaces Firebase. It provides authentication, databases, storage, functions, and messaging — all self-hosted or cloud-hosted. Appwrite Cloud free tier: unlimited projects, 75K requests/month, 10GB bandwidth, 2GB storage, 750K function executions. Getting Started Option 1: Appwrite Cloud (Free) Sign up at appwrite.io — free, no credit card. Option 2: Self-Hosted (Docker) docker run -it --rm \ --volume /var/run/docker.sock:/var/run/docker.sock \ --volume " $( pwd ) " /appwrite:/usr/src/code/appwrite:rw \ --entrypoint = "install" \ appwrite/appwrite:latest JavaScript SDK import { Client , Databases , Account , ID } from " appwrite " ; const client = new Client () . setEndpoint ( " https://cloud.appwrite.io/v1 " ) . setProject ( " YOUR_PROJECT_ID " ); const account = new Account ( client ); const databases = new Databases ( client ); // Authentication await account . create ( ID . unique (), " user@example.com " , " passwo