While NodeJS+Postgres is my go-to, I think it's harder than you're making it sound. Firebase would probably be easier for someone who's new to this altogether o

While NodeJS+Postgres is my go-to, I think it's harder than you're making it sound. Firebase would probably be easier for someone who's new to this altogether or somewhere in between. There's still nothing that holds your hand through a proper client-server interface, good relational schema design, and all the glue in between. Partially because nobody agrees on what those are.