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Parse Server+Dashboard. Setup takes half an hour, including testing whether the DB is connected. Handles accounts. Easily links stuff in a table, e.g. if you have Company connected to a User and a Address, it manages the pointers for you, and it's really easy for FE to just get the details.

If Parse Server dies or implodes for some reason, it's still built on top of MongoDB, so the data still belongs to me and I can switch to something else. I also don't need to worry about horizontal scaling.

Tutorial on it for setting up on Heroku: https://smuzani.medium.com/setting-up-a-mobile-backend-serve...

It's a little old, but the stuff I built on top of Parse Server back then has been scaling up to a thousand users, and now we've just been adding things like pagination and giving heroku more money.

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