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Introducing Cloud Functions for Firebase

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Re: Introducing Cloud Functions for Firebase

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"You have 5 questions remaining" Limit is 5 per year, that's brutal

5 troubleshooting, unlimited bugs and feature requests -> https://firebase.google.com/support/contact/bugs-features/ there. We're on Stack Overflow/the firebase-talk google group/slack etc. as well for general questions of course!

Nice, maybe the helper text could be improved then?

Re: Introducing Cloud Functions for Firebase

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Yeah, I remember when Parse offered these cloud functions back in 2012... It was a game-changer for "Backend-as-a-Service."

Wait till Google axes Firebase with no warning How many times can devs be burned, are we all masochists or just not have any memory of the last project that offered all this

Masochists, no?

Re: Introducing Cloud Functions for Firebase

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(Cloud Functions for Firebase PM here) We’ve been developing this product for years, and we’ve had it in private alpha testing for well over a year, so we’re incredibly excited to finally take the wrappings off and let all of you try it. Firebase has always focused on empowering you all to build extraordinary experiences for your users, without needing to worry about building common infrastructure. While we’ve made b…

I can't tell from the docs - are server functions able to to modify or reject writes to refs in the realtime DB before they happen?

No. All events are asynchronous. This use case is best simulated by having clients post to a queue. Cloud functions then either discards or applies writes in that queue.

Re: Introducing Cloud Functions for Firebase

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Oh man. This is great. Firebase is now a one-stop shop for the majority of app infrastructure needs, and really is the closest thing to a "serverless" infrastructure. Vendor lock-in aside, I can't think of a reason not to use it, at the MVP level at least.

Firebase offers a lot, but it's no longer the only game in town that offers a sorta-serverless baas. Here are some compelling alternatives (I'd love to see a complete list of the best Firebase alternatives): - https://www.syncano.io - https://www.graph.cool - https://www.backand.com I'm omitting things like feathers.js b/c the most attractive feature of Firebase-like tools is not having to manage your own server/data…

https://www.deepstreamhub.com might be worth to take a look as well

Re: Introducing Cloud Functions for Firebase

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"You have 5 questions remaining" Limit is 5 per year, that's brutal

5 troubleshooting, unlimited bugs and feature requests -> https://firebase.google.com/support/contact/bugs-features/ there. We're on Stack Overflow/the firebase-talk google group/slack etc. as well for general questions of course!

Can confirm. The Firebase team is monitoring StackOverflow constantly. I've had answers in as short as a few minutes.

Re: Introducing Cloud Functions for Firebase

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This was a long time coming, so congrats first. I also recently read this from an experienced Firebase developer: https://medium.freecodecamp.com/firebase-the-great-the-meh-a... Interestingly, he lists several things that he things Firebase needs in order to be awesome, and server-functions is last on the list: > 1. Real querying capabilities. Search, joins, the whole enchilada. > 2. Some sort of references likes Mon…

Author here. That list wasn't really ordered in any way.

And btw I've removed point 6 from that list.

Re: Introducing Cloud Functions for Firebase

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post #82

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Wait till Google axes Firebase with no warning How many times can devs be burned, are we all masochists or just not have any memory of the last project that offered all this

Masochists, no?

yes, edited

Re: Introducing Cloud Functions for Firebase

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Oh man. This is great. Firebase is now a one-stop shop for the majority of app infrastructure needs, and really is the closest thing to a "serverless" infrastructure. Vendor lock-in aside, I can't think of a reason not to use it, at the MVP level at least.

Firebase offers a lot, but it's no longer the only game in town that offers a sorta-serverless baas. Here are some compelling alternatives (I'd love to see a complete list of the best Firebase alternatives): - https://www.syncano.io - https://www.graph.cool - https://www.backand.com I'm omitting things like feathers.js b/c the most attractive feature of Firebase-like tools is not having to manage your own server/data…

We are moving from Firebase to Feathers js + PostgreSQL running on Heroku. Zero server/database configuration or managing needed.

Being able to have data relationships and real querying is a big plus over Firebase.

Re: Introducing Cloud Functions for Firebase

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"You have 5 questions remaining" Limit is 5 per year, that's brutal

The support comes from a genii. Make sure not to ask "Is the limit really 5?" with your first question.

Just ask for an infinite number of support questions
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