I'll happily take 6 months pay to knock up a quick node api. :-). Just need to find a beach first. What I found is you are right and FB is easier for the Mille

I'll happily take 6 months pay to knock up a quick node api. :-). Just need to find a beach first. What I found is you are right and FB is easier for the Millennial, Gen Z, Boomer or whatever IF everything you need can be done by rules and schema. As soon as you need to write functions (because rules are not sophisticated enough or too slow/expensive, or you want to know why the thing got denied) then you are writing backend code. It is actually easier to write the same code in a NextJS template - like there is less to learn, less docs to read. And then chuck it on Vercel which will deploy and devops it for you. So you have all the devops done for you like Firebase would and you have spent less time. Now if you are talking to postgres instead of firebase from the backend, it is actually easier IMO. A line to connect to pg. A line to issue a query. Guess this is just my opinion, but it is less code to do so, less environment variable farting around, downloading a weird .json with all the credentials. If I were inclined I would write a blog post showing how much less lines of code are needed, how much less understanding is needed, and with the managed infra/DB offered by Vercel etc. you are still serverless, etc.