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Tool review
Cloudflare Turnstile
Cloudflare’s CAPTCHA replacement for lightweight human verification on forms, signups, and other abuse-prone flows. A low-friction way to make cheap bot abuse harder without making real users solve puzzle garbage all day.
Tool review
Convex
Backend platform for apps where data changes should update the UI automatically, without building a lot of custom realtime wiring. Includes a database, server functions, realtime updates, auth integrations, file storage, search, crons, and AI-agent workflow tools.
Comparison
Supabase vs Firebase for Vibe Coders
These are two of the fastest ways to bolt a real backend onto an AI-built app, but they optimize for different futures. Supabase is usually the cleaner default for SQL-first web apps. Firebase is still brutally effective when mobile support, post-launch tooling, and the wider Google app ecosystem matter most—and it now has a real Postgres path through SQL Connect.
Blog post
Supabase, Mattsplained
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Blog post
What's the Deal with React and Next Again?
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Related glossary terms
Glue Code
Glue code refers to small bits of code written to connect different software components, libraries, systems, or APIs that were not originally designed to work together. It's not responsible for the core functionality but rather for bridging gaps, handling conversions, adapting interfaces, or orchestrating data flow between parts of a system. Glue code is common in scripting, automation, and integrating legacy systems or third-party libraries.
Shared tags: back-end
Hosting
Paying a company to keep your website’s files on a server connected to the internet.
Shared tags: back-end