Convex

Our CTO James gave a talk at Developer Week 2024 about how backends have been letting down product developers by not providing clean abstractions that empower development without introducing unnecessary complexity.

James outlines four major failures of the status quo:
* Bad ideas in query models
* Bad ideas in type systems
* Bad ideas in caching and performance
* Bad ideas in data sync

He explains why these exist, how they are holding back developers, and discusses recent innovations at Convex that address these four areas.

Backends Should be Designed for Product Developers

Web Dev Cody

Web Dev Cody guides viewers in creating a comprehensive full stack file storage application on YouTube. The tutorial covers features like organizations, file upload, management, role-based authorization, authentication, cron deletes, favorites, trash functionality, and various UI components such as dialogs, modals, toasts, dropdowns, and more. 

Build a File Storage App with Role Based Authorization (Next.js, Shadcn, Typescript)

An overview of Convex and Supabase, comparing the DX and capabilities of both products when building out the same application.

Why I use Convex over Supabase as my BaaS

Check out the behind-the-scenes engineering efforts that went behind Axiom's integration into Convex.

Dev Diary: Log Streaming ft. Axiom

Code With Antonio

In this 10 hour tutorial, you will learn how to create your very own Miro clone - A collaborative, real-time whiteboard. Notable features include a real-time database, whiteboard from scratch with ability to add shapes like Rectangles and Ellipses, Sticky notes and Pencil drawing.


Build a Real-Time Miro Clone With Nextjs, React, Tailwind (2024)

Hi all 👋 In this 8 hour tutorial you will learn how to create an end-to-end fullstack notion clone, all with proper notion-style editor, cover images, nested documents, publishing documents to public, real-time database and more.

Fullstack Notion Clone: Next.js 13, React, Convex, Tailwind | Full Course 2023

Jack Herrington

Check out Convex, an incredibly well-designed Firebase alternative that provides a realtime database, object storage, server functions, http API hosting, cron jobs and more!

The Next Level Firebase for Modern Developers

As a Programmer

A  tutorial on how to create a clone of WhatsApp with OpenAI built with React.js, TypeScript, TailwindCSS Convex, Clerk and ZegoCloud.

Build and Deploy a Full Stack WhatsApp Clone with AI | Video Calls, Screen Sharing | React.js, TypeScript

TubeGuruji

A  tutorial on how to create a fully functional clone of Eraser.io with Convex using Next.js, React, TypeScript, and Tailwind CSS. 

Build and Deploy Eraser.io App Clone: Full Stack React App - Next.js, Typescript, Tailwind Css

Learn With Jason

In this tutorial, learn how to use Convex HTTP actions to set up a webhook that handles incoming text messages and stores them for display in a React web app. On top of that, it manages user auth and permissions. This is a legitimately complex workflow that can be built in under an hour using a couple hundred lines of code.

Texting your Web App to Create Posts

This is a full stack tutorial video includes subscriptions powered by Stripe with Convex as the backend, Clerk for authentication, and Next.js for the frontend. 


Building a Subscription Based SaaS with Stripe

AICamp

At AICamp's end-of-year meetup for 2023, Michal goes over why you should build a custom AI-powered chat for your product, what options you have for building one, and which one you should ultimately choose.

Building Context Augmented AI Chat in Practice: AICamp 2023 EOY Meetup

Tag along as WebDevCody participates in LearnWithJason's coding challenge where 4 developers use the same technologies to create the best project possible in 4 hours.

The most exciting 4 hour coding challenge

Using Convex, 4 web devs built their own fullstack app based on this prompt:

> Build a way to show real-time updates on the website for a Dungeons and Dragons-themed small business!  

See what they built, learn how they did it, and watch their reactions to each other's work in this installment of the "4 Web Devs, 1 App Idea" video series.



4 Devs, 1 Idea, 4 Apps in 4 Hours(!!) with Convex

Generating rhyming words via GPT-4, along with Dall-E cartoon images and ElevenLabs speaking with a specific voice to make a game to teach words.

I trained my own AI voice model to teach my kid

Simon Grimm

In this video, you will learn to build a powerful realtime chat with React Native and use Convex as the backend. From creating groups to uploading images and styling messages you will learn all the skills you need to build a React Native chat!

React Native Realtime Chat (Expo, File Upload, Typescript)

A quick start guide for using Convex with Next.js

Using Convex with Next.js Quickstart


Build a text adventure game with Next.js, Convex, OpenAI, and DALL-E. Full stack walkthrough.

How to code an AI powered Text Adventure Game (Next.js, Convex, OpenAI, DALL-E)

Software Engineering Daily

Discussion of patterns, psychology, abstractions, managing complexity, and more on the Software Engineering Daily Podcast with James Cowling

Building a Full Cloud Backend - Software Engineering Daily Podcast

Building a full stack app to generate images based on a prompt and user-provided sketch

How to Generate AI Images from Scribbles with Next.js

Jamie Turner

So you have a pretty good grasp on web development, but you want to learn more about building with generative AI? You're not alone. In this live-coding course, follow along as we build a full-stack generative AI app using LangChain.js, Replicate, and OpenAI.

Building a full-stack AI storybook app with LangChain, Replicate, and OpenAI

InfoQ

Alex Cole discusses dynamic web apps, how serverless solutions compare to in-house stacks, and how product development changes when individual engineers can own features end-to-end.


Everyone Can Be a Full-Stack Engineer

You can build a database-powered app with end-to-end type safety and real-time updates without needing to learn how to manage databases. This tutorial will show you how.


Type-safe, data-driven apps, even if databases freak you out

Jamstack TV

Today, a new wave of innovation is making databases approachable for developers without requiring a specialized skillset, opening the door to a whole new category of ambitious web experiences. In this panel, you’ll hear from the people pushing the boundaries of database technology and learn what’s possible — and what’s coming.

Jamstack Conf 2022 Panel: The Future of Databases

The future of databases is Convex. This video originally aired at Jamstack 2022, highlighting the next evolution of modern web development architecture.

The future of databases is not just a database

Yet Another Infrastructure Group

Hosted by Ian & Alex, with Alana (Readyset), Hojjat (Deltastream), Jamie (Convex).

Convex and the future of streaming infrastructure

Convex is a JS-powered database and backend for web apps that’s reactive — you can use it to create endpoints and queries that update automatically when data changes. Tom Ballinger will teach us how.

Build a Reactive Backend for a Web App

Fullstack

Reactivity has taken a dominant position today within web app development. Our components and app state are all reactive, and the world has adapted–most would argue, for the better.

But has Convex gone too far? 😉

A new generation of serverless backends like Convex is recklessly spreading reactivity across our databases, server-side functions, and protocols, making global reactivity a new phenomenon. Shared global data is becoming reactive by default. Is this good for the world?

In this video, Jamie Turner explores one circumstance where this pervasive reactivity poses a challenge, and he builds one useful abstraction for taming over-reactivity and turning it back into a strength.

Managing Reactivity with useBufferedState

Dynamic application developers need global state management, not a database.

James (@jamesacowling) presents his talk from the HYTRADBOI 2022 database conference on how Convex is rethinking how app developers manage global state.

Data Interactivity in the Serverless Future (HYTRADBOI 2022)

Sujay (@sujayakar314) walks through how easy it is to build a dynamic web app with global state on Convex. Join the Convex beta at https://convex.dev.

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