When comparing Baasbox vs Skygear, the Slant community recommends Baasbox for most people. In the question“What are the best self-hosted BaaS (backend-as-a-service) providers?” Baasbox is ranked 4th while Skygear is ranked 12th. The most important reason people chose Baasbox is:
Deploying BaasBox is very simple, and the documentation on their site is very helpful and easy to understand.
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Pros
Pro Easy to deploy
Deploying BaasBox is very simple, and the documentation on their site is very helpful and easy to understand.
Pro Self hosted and hosted options
You can choose to either download and install Baasbox on your own server, or use their hosted solution.
Pro Raw data is exportable
Pro Supports User authentication
Pro Supports Cloudcode
Pro Rich SDK support
Skygear has SDKs for iOS, Android, JavaScript.
Pro Scalable Backend
Cons
Con No JavaScript SDK
The JavaScript SDK is not yet released although it should be available in the near future.
Con No longer maintained
Last commit is from 2015.