What is Appwrite?

Appwrite is an awesome open source backend as a service for web and mobile applications, including Flutter. It provides a wide range of features that are essential for building modern applications. Modern applications are content-rich, collaborative, and sync across devices. All of this would not be possible without a solid backend. Appwrite is an example of this kind of solid backend. Also, I think Appwrite is a great complement to Flutter, as they share some of the same qualities. First, both are open source; second, both focus on making the developer experience awesome, and finally, both are simple to work with and integrate well together. Appwrite provides various services, such as authentication, databases, storage, and cloud functions, all of which are accessible via a REST API or a real-time API using WebSocket. Don’t worry – we don’t have to work from scratch, as Appwrite already provides awesome SDKs for many platforms and languages, including Flutter.

As Appwrite is a robust backend solution maintained by a solid organization and a great open source community, it allows us to focus on our application by taking care of all the repetitive tasks required for developing a modern application.

Now that we know what Appwrite is and why it is an important tool for our application, in the next section, we will learn how to install it.