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Firebase is fantastic. There is also a steady drumbeat of continual improvements going on in Firebase that keeps making it better and better. Even when Firebas
by scottfr 7y ago
Firebase is fantastic. There is also a steady drumbeat of continual improvements going on in Firebase that keeps making it better and better.
Even when Firebase is using other GCP products under the hood (e.g. Firebase Storage is Cloud Storage and Firebase Functions are Cloud Functions) they often provide a better developer experience that makes things flow smoother. For example, having a Firebase Function running on a schedule is a just an added line in your functions config whereas running a Cloud Function on a schedule requires setting up a Cloud Scheduler Job and linking everything together with PubSub.
- mrtksn 7y agoOh definitely. Also, I like their SDK. It's even easier to keep all the app data in Firebase than dealing with native solutions. All the stuff about imperfections of the world like slow connections and so no is taken care of. My only issue so far is that cloud functions respond very slowly if they are not used for a while. The first time takes 2-3 seconds, thereafter it's in the milliseconds. But other than that, it's such a nice experience.