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---
- title: "Appwrite Open Source Backend as a Service Platform"
+ name: "Appwrite Open Source Backend as a Service Platform"
+ slug: "appwrite-open-source-backend-as-a-service-platform"
description: "Appwrite is an open-source, self-hosted backend platform that provides authentication, databases, storage, functions, messaging, and realtime APIs out of the box. It serves as a privacy-first alternative to Firebase and Supabase, packaged as Docker microservices for full data ownership."
+ github_stars: 55674
verification: "security_reviewed"
source: "https://github.com/appwrite/appwrite"
author: "Appwrite"
- category:
- - "Integrations & Connectors"
- framework:
- - "Multi-Framework"
+ category: "Integrations & Connectors"
+ framework: "Multi-Framework"
tool_ecosystem:
github_repo: "appwrite/appwrite"
github_stars: 55674
---
# Appwrite Open Source Backend as a Service Platform
Appwrite is an open-source, self-hosted backend platform that provides authentication, databases, storage, functions, messaging, and realtime APIs out of the box. It serves as a privacy-first alternative to Firebase and Supabase, packaged as Docker microservices for full data ownership.
## Installation
- Choose whichever fits your setup:
+ Use the upstream install or setup path that matches your environment:
+ - docker run -it --rm \
+ - docker run -it --rm ^
+ - docker run -it --rm
- 1. Copy this skill folder into your local skills directory.
- 2. Clone the repo and symlink or copy the skill into your agent workspace.
- 3. Add the repo as a git submodule if you manage shared skills centrally.
- 4. Install it through your internal provisioning or packaging workflow.
- 5. Download the folder directly from GitHub and place it in your skills collection.
+ Requirements and caveats from upstream:
+ - Appwrite is designed to run in a containerized environment. Running your server is as easy as running one command from your terminal. You can either run Appwrite on your localhost using docker-compose or on any other...
+ - Before running the installation command, make sure you have [Docker](https://www.docker.com/products/docker-desktop) installed on your machine:
+ - --volume /var/run/docker.sock:/var/run/docker.sock \
+
+ Basic usage or getting-started notes:
+ - [Getting Started](#getting-started)
+ - **[Appwrite Functions](https://appwrite.io/docs/products/functions)** - Serverless compute platform to run custom backend logic in isolated runtimes, triggered by events or scheduled jobs.15 runtimes supported.
+ - The easiest way to get started with Appwrite is by [signing up for Appwrite Cloud](https://cloud.appwrite.io/). While Appwrite Cloud is in public beta, you can build with Appwrite completely free, and we won't collect...
+
+ - Source: https://github.com/appwrite/appwrite
+ - Extracted from upstream docs: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/appwrite/appwrite/HEAD/README.md
## Source
- [Agent Skill Exchange](https://agentskillexchange.com/skills/appwrite-open-source-backend-as-a-service-platform/)