Meet Baserow, the API-first open source alternative to Airtable
Airtable is part of everyone's digital toolkit these days. It's basically a very powerful, dynamic spreadsheet with an API – online.
Baserow is an OPEN SOURCE alternative to Airtable, but it's already so much more! Follow along to learn how to set up and deploy Baserow on your machine, server, or cloud infrastructure. Browse the project with me and learn why it's open source and how you can benefit from it.
You get out of the box:
• Search, sort, filter and hide columns
• Different views (Grid, Gallery, Form)
• Share views privately or publicly with password
• Upload files to AWS S3 and more
• Multi-player with role-based access control
• Integrations with Zapier and more to come
• REST APIs for each table including documentation (!!!)
Find out more:
Website: https://bit.ly/3Ogr37m
GitHub: https://github.com/bram2w/baserow
GitLab: https://gitlab.com/bramw/baserow
Twitter: / baserow
I have used Railway (https://railway.app) for hosted PostgreSQL and Digitalocean (https://digitalocean.com) with Docker for deployment in this demonstration.
0:00 – Intro
0:55 – Why is Baserow exciting?
2:13 – Self-hosting options
2:56 – Repository setup
3:33 – Docker Deployment Documentation
6:03 – Deploy Baserow with Docker (Part 1)
6:26 – Provision PostgreSQL on Railway
6:54 – Deploy Baserow with Docker (Part 2)
10:27 – Explore self-hosted Baserow instance
12:43 – Generated table-specific API documentation
14:22 – Explore the Baserow database structure
18:58 – Final words
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