My head is swimming! Looks great

Exciting stuff! And I see someone has already created a boilerplate project with it: "A boilerplate for developing react+redux applications with rethinkdb/horizon as realtime database and express for the server." https://github.com/flipace/lovli.js

Mind blown. Will have to give this a spin.

You can read more about the launch here but essentially Horizon includes: - A backend server built with Node.js and RethinkDB that supports data persistence, realtime streams, input validation, user authentication, and permissions - A JavaScript client library that developers can use on the frontend to store JSON documents in the database, perform queries, and subscribe to live updates - A command-line tool that can generate project templates, start up a local Horizon development server, and help you deploy your Horizon application to the cloud The Horizon server is a complete backend that developers can use to power their applications. It’s great for rapid prototyping: simply run the Horizon server from the command-line and develop your frontend user experience with the Horizon client library. Frontend developers can use Horizon to create full applications without writing any backend code. Horizon is open-source software, which means that you can use and modify it as you see fit. Run a local instance on your laptop during development and then deploy your application anywhere you want: low-cost VPS hosting environments, scalable public cloud platforms, or your own bare metal. Horizon takes advantage of RethinkDB’s battle-tested clustering, which makes it easy to scale as your audience grows. Horizon was previously in private beta but is now open to everyone ✨

This kind of product is removing so much hassle from the backend dev... I think that the number of backends built from scratch will strongly decreased in the next years with this market being more and more interesting and solid. I will try this out !

Awesome, loving it. Is there a plan for an admin console like the RethinkDB has? I think, that admin console is a big selling point for RethinkDB itself and so could be for Horizon. I personally spend a lot of time to build a separate console for each and every project. Thanks for making this happen.

Love the branding on this. Logo is beautiful. Nice work

Can't wait to try this

Is this similar to MeteorJS?

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Looks like it is a great platform, but I would like to see some type of a "showcase" page that lists who have been using it.

very cool

I'm so hyped to try this out

Perfect! Will see if it can work as a backend for a quiz game app.