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Re: Firebase gets better analytics, crash reporting and more

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Post by brazzledazzle »

bikamonki wrote: post #19

I am a super happy Firebase user from day zero. I've built many production-ready apps with it and will continue to do so. So far the only features missing that will make it perfect and a complete back-end solution are: 1. Server code (something like parse server code or AWS lambda) to run event triggers (eg: run more complex data validation or trigger a mail/sms after a ref is created/updated) 2. Full text search. Wh…

Have you taken a look at the AWS managed elasticsearch service for your search/indexing?

Re: Firebase gets better analytics, crash reporting and more

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Post by cornflake »

stewartmiles wrote: post #12
cornflake wrote: post #6

The free version of Google Analytics gets capped at a certain volume of traffic whereas Firebase doesn't. That's definitely one motivating factor to make the switch. I'll be interested to check it out when they get around to introducing Real-Time user stats to firebase. That's a pretty crucial component of analytics which I have open all the time. Google contacted me to switch to firebase from analytics. Seems like t…

Checkout the sneak peak of Firebase Analytics's StreamView. https://youtu.be/2sCjSz_svdY?t=1787 Also, it sounds like you may find the new DebugView feature interesting. https://youtu.be/2sCjSz_svdY?t=1346 Cheers, Stewart (Firebase team)

That keynote helps a lot, thanks Stewart

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Post by scsilver »

jamest wrote: post #8
ino wrote: post #4

Excuse the tangent, but what problem does Firebase solve? I was updating my app and AdMob and they want me to use Firebase now. https://firebase.google.com/docs/admob/ios/quick-start I wanted to know why should I include it just to use AdMob so I checked the video on the page: https://youtu.be/9qCxo0D-Sak They promise to explain benefits for me but they only tell me how to use it. The docs also don't do it. It seems…

[Firebase Founder] The combination of the two is meant to help you maximize ad revenue. Since Firebase has a free & unlimited analytics product, you can see your AdMob stats in the same place as your other analytics data. From a conceptual point-of-view, the Firebase SDKs are now the place Google puts 'core mobile offerings', AdMob is one of those

With such a generous free tier, what are you guys doing to ensure you will be around in 5 years? Love your service, it just seems too good to be true.

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Post by girvo »

DigitalSea wrote: post #13

This is great news. My last few web projects have all been based on Firebase because I focus on the front-end these days and I don't have to worry about scaling, databases, API endpoints and other nonsense which consumes a lot of my day. The pain of even getting a VPS deployed with support for Node.js, database and then figuring out some kind of redundancy to keep Node and my database running can also consume your da…

Question: How do you deal with authorisation? I've still yet to come up with a solution I'm happy with unfortunately; I'm currently relying on a custom token generated server-side that grants given users particular claims that I then check in the database rules, but it feels... brittle, I guess.

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Post by Strom »

> Google decided to double down on Firebase

So much so that they announced the closing down of another realtime service just last week, the Channel API [1], and are trying to funnel everyone into using Firebase instead. Frankly I'm not sure I even want to look into another Google service as I feel it'll get deprecated in no time as well. Better to use someone whose primary business I'm using.

[1] https://cloud.google.com/appengine/docs/deprecations/channel

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Post by smnl »

I've used Parse extensively as a backed for iOS apps before and lately started trying out Firebase as a replacement. Firebase seems like a decent alternative so far, but there's 2 important features that I'd like to see:

1. Always immediate updates for Remote Config flags - currently Firebase uses old cached flags for up to 12 hours and only allows immediate updates in the "developer mode", but in production, sometimes you need to change a config flag for all users immediately, perhaps to fix a bug, and can't afford having clients still use the old cached values.

Also, it would be nice if Remote Config supported additional data types like arrays, dicts, and dates.

2. A non-realtime key-value datastore - most apps don't require a realtime database, so it'd be great to have a simple datastore where you don't have to worry about managing the number of simultaneous connections.

Re: Firebase gets better analytics, crash reporting and more

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Post by wiradikusuma »

jamest wrote: post #14
wwalser wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Similarly, Google is pushing developers toward Firebase as a replacement for their identity toolkit[1]. However, while reading the provided documentation and tutorials, it's not clear how anything is better than the old toolkit except that the tutorials now assume you'd like to use Firebase to store your user DB (which I have no interest in). I also have trouble discerning where the free ends and usage starts costing…

[Firebase Founder/PM] The Firebase Auth product existed before Firebase joined Google. We've upgraded it significantly, pulling in lots from Identity Toolkit. While we're not at full parity yet, I'd love to hear what's missing for you. There are lots of net-new features we've added [1] The cost is free for unlimited users (same as Identity Toolkit) [2] I'm sorry to hear you've had a poor experience with our docs, fee…

What's missing for me is Migration Guide from using official Facebook Login SDK to Firebase's. Also, would be great if there's a list of drawbacks of migrating (e.g. no more FB analytics).
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