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Agree with starting focusing on UI first. But haven’t seen a speed advantage at this stage of serverless vs a simple monolithic backend app with a bunch of endp
by smoe 5y ago
Agree with starting focusing on UI first. But haven’t seen a speed advantage at this stage of serverless vs a simple monolithic backend app with a bunch of endpoints. You can get something in front of users within hours. Either way allows you to overengineer and focus on the wrong thing.
- freedomben 5y agoAgreed, and the upside to to having a monolithic backend is that if/when your app gets serious you don't have to port it or redo it. Sure there are definitely large apps that use Firebase et al, but much more often than not for reasons of cost or compliance or customization, the backend ends up getting written later anyway and APIs usually need to change.
- mmcnl 5y agoAgreed, I can get something up and running using Express or FastAPI (frontend + backend) easily in a few hours, whereas Firebase would be new to me. Use whatever you know/can to get something in front of the user.