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I thought there would be competitors, I don't know why Firebase is not getting more adoption then, it's still a bit of a niche and Google does not seem to be pu
by vfc1 7y ago
I thought there would be competitors, I don't know why Firebase is not getting more adoption then, it's still a bit of a niche and Google does not seem to be pushing it as much as a couple of years ago, even though the product is better than ever.
- sojournerc 7y agoIn our case, it's because we have more than web/mobile clients talking to our API. If the business case doesn't require partner/3rd party API access, then maybe Firebase is appropriate. Mentioned elsewhere in the comments here is the risk of vendor lock-in. Given Google's history of EOLing products from under developers, there is real risk in putting all the business logic eggs in the Google basket.
- vfc1 7y agoFirebase is like a web developer friendly version of Google Cloud, that it bases itself on. It gives easy to use serverless CRUD (with Firestore), authentication, authorization, secure file upload, hosting and server-side functions for things like image processing or database triggers. I don't think Firebase will be end of live anytime soon, worst case it's user base would get migrated to Google Cloud, as it's really just Google Cloud under the hood. I don't think it's an option for Google to give up on the cloud at this point, even though AFIK Amazon has the biggest market share.
- latchkey 7y agoAWS Amplify is the competition.