Convex Open Source Recap 2025
We re-upped our dedication to contributing to open source software; this article goes over our contributions in 2025 and our future plans.
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We re-upped our dedication to contributing to open source software; this article goes over our contributions in 2025 and our future plans.
Convex now has nearly 10,000 paying teams. Some showed up last month and deployed their first project in an afternoon. Others have been with us for years and have grown into businesses with millions of ARR. But as these teams have grown, a…
After a long wait (and a lot of very fair nudging from our customers), Convex EU hosting is here, with customers like Hercules already using it. If you have EU regulatory and compliance requirements, or you want to use EU-based hosting for…
A few months ago, Jamie wrote this post, announcing that Chef was released to open source, Convex joined the Open Source Pledge, and that Convex sponsored a bunch of open source projects. Maybe unsurprisingly, we have continued to double d…
TL;DR Starting from convex 1.31.0, the db.get, db.patch, db.replace, and db.delete functions take the table name as the first argument. The new API is safer and allows for more customization in the future. Existing code will still work, an…
Preview Deployments for Everyone You no longer need to sign up for Convex Professional to use preview deployments: you can now use them with a free Convex account. Read the docs. “Copy as Markdown” in Convex Docs It is now easier to add a…
Last year, we launched Convex Components — drop-in modules that act like services, but execute transactionally with the rest of your code. Along with this launch, we released some components that were authored by the Convex team to solve c…
Today, we're announcing the availability to deploy Convex via the Vercel Marketplace, allowing you to install Convex directly from your Vercel dashboard. We believe that using a high quality hosting service with a backend optimized for dev…
I'm pleased to announce that Convex has raised $24 million to continue reinventing backend platforms for today's teams. The round was led by a16z and co-led by Spark Capital, with participation from Neo Ventures, Alumni Ventures, and Upsca…
Autumn and Dodo Components The teams from Autumn and Dodo Payments wrote Convex components to make integrating payments into your application much easier. Payments have been a sore spot for most devs and we’re excited to work with strong t…
The complaint I hear about Convex more than any other? "Auth still isn't good enough." And we agree. Getting auth set up correctly is notoriously painful. And we've learned that when you design an auth system that is so simple it works out…
Over the past few months, more than a quarter of a million people have used Chef to create awesome full-stack projects. Over that time, we've gotten lots of feedback on what's worked, what hasn't, and we've continually iterated and improve…