Sam and Ryan talk about adding an authenticated backend to miragejs.com using Hasura, Heroku and Netlify. They also talk about the differences in risk between using paid third-party services vs. depending on open-source libraries.

Topics include:

• 3:47 – Adding a backend to miragejs.com

• 13:03 – Environment variables in frontend apps

• 20:48 – Adding privileges to the anonymous role

• 28:00 – Should Hasura let you configure permissions for unauthenticated requests?

• 31:36 – Setting up a webhook using Netlify cloud function

• 37:19 – Risk profile of paid services vs. OSS libraries

Links:

• Hasura

• URQL

• Netlify Functions