I found it really hard to play with Firebase because it is only available hosted from Google. I like to tinker with things that I can run locally and it was so

I found it really hard to play with Firebase because it is only available hosted from Google. I like to tinker with things that I can run locally and it was so much work (relative to other technologies) to get a staging environment established. For example, I'm building lots of things with docker so I can setup and tear down really quickly.