When I was evaluating Firebase a few years back, the thing that most annoyed me was that their frontend library wasn't open source. Google just shipped an obfus

When I was evaluating Firebase a few years back, the thing that most annoyed me was that their frontend library wasn't open source. Google just shipped an obfuscated and minified JS library. The lack of source mixed with their terrible docs made it a non-starter for me. I remember having some issue, and thought: well, it's JS, let me just check the source like I normally would! Only to find out that you couldn't browse the full client source code anywhere. At that point my only option was to reverse engineer the minified source which just seemed silly and like a waste of time. Firebase moat has nothing to do with their frontend library, which anyone could reverse engineer with a little bit of time. And yet they still kept it closed source. I don't know if anything has changed since then, but that was the primary reason why I lost interest in the service.