PocketBase is a single Go binary that gives you a full backend out of the box — SQLite-backed REST API, real-time WebSocket subscriptions, auth (OAuth2, email/password), admin UI, and file storage. 60,374★ on GitHub, MIT licensed.
Links & Stats 👉 https://github.com/pocketbase/pocketbase
No Docker, no database server, no config files. Just ./pocketbase serve and you’re running. This lines up perfectly with the no-daemon philosophy — one static binary, nothing else to manage.
