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Oh man. This is great. Firebase is now a one-stop shop for the majority of app infrastructure needs, and really is the closest thing to a "serverless" infrastru
by drumttocs8 10y ago
Oh man. This is great. Firebase is now a one-stop shop for the majority of app infrastructure needs, and really is the closest thing to a "serverless" infrastructure. Vendor lock-in aside, I can't think of a reason not to use it, at the MVP level at least.
- self 10y agoI'll give you one: this won't work in China. I'm in the process of migrating a few GAE services to AppScale on AWS (Beijing) to set up a separate backend for the China-localized version of a mobile app. AppScale supports a lot of App Engine functionality, but not other Google services. No Firebase or GCM for me.
- subpixel 10y agoFirebase offers a lot, but it's no longer the only game in town that offers a sorta-serverless baas. Here are some compelling alternatives (I'd love to see a complete list of the best Firebase alternatives): - https://www.syncano.io https://www.syncano.io - https://www.graph.cool https://www.graph.cool - https://www.backand.com https://www.backand.com I'm omitting things like feathers.js b/c the most attractive feature of Firebase-like tools is not having to manage your own server/database.
- stemuk 10y agohttps://www.deepstreamhub.com https://www.deepstreamhub.com might be worth to take a look as well
- pier25 10y agoWe are moving from Firebase to Feathers js + PostgreSQL running on Heroku. Zero server/database configuration or managing needed. Being able to have data relationships and real querying is a big plus over Firebase.
- mparis 10y agoAnd https://scaphold.io https://scaphold.io!
- mparis 10y agoAnd https://scaphold.io https://scaphold.io!