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Migrations · Xano

Most products on Xano don't need to leave it: Xano runs on PostgreSQL, and a new front end in code can keep calling its API. Moving the backend is worth it in fewer cases: when you need the database in your own cloud account, or when the backend is what slows your users down even after tuning.

So we usually go in that order: the front end first, the backend only if there's a reason. In the three Xano products we've moved to code, Xano stayed as the backend.

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When it makes sense

  • You need the database in your own cloud account, for compliance or for a client
  • Background jobs still slow down what your users see after tuning
  • Your team wants the whole product in one stack it already knows

When it doesn't

  • What slows you down is the front end, not the backend
  • Your team already works in Xano and changes ship fine
  • Costs grow with load that better queries or jobs would remove: that's fixed inside Xano
  • The jobs and endpoints need tuning, not a new home

01

We review the instance: endpoints, background tasks, permissions and what runs at night.

02

We fix what's urgent there first, often queries and jobs.

03

The front end moves to code against the same Xano, screen by screen.

04

If the backend has to move, it goes the same way: in parallel, one part at a time, compared before the switch.

These come from how an app was built, not from Xano, and they can be fixed without leaving it.

Nightly jobs that empty a table before rebuilding it: if one run dies halfway, the main page is empty in the morning.

Jobs scheduled at a fixed time that start before the import they depend on has finished.

Permissions checked in the front end instead of in the endpoint.

Webhooks that accept whatever arrives without checking who sent it.

From our work

A show-jumping data platform: front end to code, Xano kept.

A subscription platform for show-jumping data runs on Xano, with a nightly import of millions of competition results. We reviewed the instance first and fixed the import, then rebuilt the front end from WeWeb to Next.js on the same Xano. It went live two months after the work on code started, and we set the owner up to change it himself with AI, on his own branch.

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Is Xano a dead end?

No. Xano runs on PostgreSQL, so your data lives in a standard database, and a front end in code can call Xano like any other API. If you ever move, it's a migration, not a rewrite of your business.

Can you move only the front end and leave Xano?

Yes. That's what we do most often.

Should we move to Supabase?

Only if it fixes something you have today. Supabase is a good home when you want Postgres under your own account and a team that works in code. We'll tell you on the call whether the move pays for itself.

Our Xano bill keeps growing. Do we need a bigger plan?

Not always. On one platform, background tasks ran about ten times more often than users made requests, and timed out at night. Splitting and fixing them was the first step; a bigger plan only helps once that's done.

Who owns the code?

You do. The repository, the hosting and the third-party accounts are in your name from the start or move there before we finish.

Other migrations

Fifteen minutes on a call. If it's not a fit, we'll say so and point you somewhere better if we can.

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