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Re: Introducing Firebase Hosting

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Post by michaeldwan »

Building with Firebase was always a bit of a pain since I had to use at least two services (Firebase + S3). This is really great. I've got a dozen or so static page apps that could use this right away.

Non-SNI device support & naked domain support are awesome features. I’d like to see a bit more customization around the routing / DNS still. It would be nice if I could host different versions of my app on different subdomains (staging, etc). Apex hosting is a nice touch too. Overall this is a great entry to the PASS space.

Re: Introducing Firebase Hosting

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Post by drTriumph »

Hi HN, I'm the lead developer on Firebase Hosting and the post’s author. We're trying to build something that's both simple to use and a serious production grade product. We think we're pretty close to the mark but we'd love to hear how we can improve it. Let us know in the comments (or email me at chris@firebase.com).

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Post by jakozaur »

drTriumph wrote: post #3

Hi HN, I'm the lead developer on Firebase Hosting and the post’s author. We're trying to build something that's both simple to use and a serious production grade product. We think we're pretty close to the mark but we'd love to hear how we can improve it. Let us know in the comments (or email me at chris@firebase.com).

Congratulations on launch!

It would be nice if you could add some latency benchmark against common alternatives like S3. A lot of ppl use that for static webpages, but I wonder how lack of CDN affect the user experience.

Re: Introducing Firebase Hosting

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Post by hrrld »

This is neat. Thanks for making and sharing this.

So far I have been using site44 (http://www.site44.com/) to accomplish this already. I see that you guys have built some node apps to make deploying and rolling back easy, which is smart. I have found the way site44 works (it's a dropbox app that updates what's being served automatically when the dropbox folder contents change) to be very convenient.

It may be interesting for you guys to consider doing something similar.

Take care.

Re: Introducing Firebase Hosting

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Post by mikelehen »

jakozaur wrote: post #5
drTriumph wrote: post #3

Hi HN, I'm the lead developer on Firebase Hosting and the post’s author. We're trying to build something that's both simple to use and a serious production grade product. We think we're pretty close to the mark but we'd love to hear how we can improve it. Let us know in the comments (or email me at chris@firebase.com).

Congratulations on launch! It would be nice if you could add some latency benchmark against common alternatives like S3. A lot of ppl use that for static webpages, but I wonder how lack of CDN affect the user experience.

Great suggestion! The difference between being on a CDN and not is really night and day. Every serious site deserves to be on a CDN. Your users will thank you for the faster page loads. :-)

Re: Introducing Firebase Hosting

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Post by nirvdrum »

jakozaur wrote: post #5
drTriumph wrote: post #3

Hi HN, I'm the lead developer on Firebase Hosting and the post’s author. We're trying to build something that's both simple to use and a serious production grade product. We think we're pretty close to the mark but we'd love to hear how we can improve it. Let us know in the comments (or email me at chris@firebase.com).

Congratulations on launch! It would be nice if you could add some latency benchmark against common alternatives like S3. A lot of ppl use that for static webpages, but I wonder how lack of CDN affect the user experience.

I guess comparing to CloudFront would be helpful, too. If you've gone so far as hosting on S3, serving through CloudFront is about 5 minutes of additional effort.

Re: Introducing Firebase Hosting

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Post by mikelehen »

hrrld wrote: post #6

This is neat. Thanks for making and sharing this. So far I have been using site44 ( http://www.site44.com/ ) to accomplish this already. I see that you guys have built some node apps to make deploying and rolling back easy, which is smart. I have found the way site44 works (it's a dropbox app that updates what's being served automatically when the dropbox folder contents change) to be very convenient. It may be inter…

Thanks for the feedback! Now that we've got the core deploy / rollback tooling in place, we're definitely looking for ways to plug into other common workflows (git, Dropbox, etc.). Stay tuned!

Re: Introducing Firebase Hosting

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Post by asadlionpk »

mikelehen wrote: post #9
hrrld wrote: post #6

This is neat. Thanks for making and sharing this. So far I have been using site44 ( http://www.site44.com/ ) to accomplish this already. I see that you guys have built some node apps to make deploying and rolling back easy, which is smart. I have found the way site44 works (it's a dropbox app that updates what's being served automatically when the dropbox folder contents change) to be very convenient. It may be inter…

Thanks for the feedback! Now that we've got the core deploy / rollback tooling in place, we're definitely looking for ways to plug into other common workflows (git, Dropbox, etc.). Stay tuned!

A git deployment would be great. Similar to heroku I guess.
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