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Re: Trying to use Firebase is the most horrible experience in my life

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Post by BandButcher » Sat, Jan 13, 2024, 5:15 AM UTC

I have several "prod" websites using Firebase. However i wrote them 5-7years ago so im sure the framework has changed a lot since.

its a solid framework for real time db and hosting but imo its struggling to keep up with competitors (aws, cloudflare, pocketbase, and my current fav supabase)

My bet is that google is shifting money and engineering time towards AI hype as opposed to firebase cloud infrastructure. Also they bought out firebase way back and googlefied it, then i guess you're seeing the final result

tldr: check out supabase

Re: Trying to use Firebase is the most horrible experience in my life

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Post by BandButcher » Sat, Jan 13, 2024, 5:36 AM UTC

alanlbird wrote: post #18

I'm a bit surprised at the negativity here. I have used Firebase for 11 projects and have had no issues at all. I love that I can quickly and easily set up services that work well together. For most projects I use the realtime database and authentication. The database is very fast and the realtime feature is essential for some of my projects. Authentication is free no matter how many monthly users I have. I also use…

2nd this haha, firebase wasnt always a google product...they ended up buying them out because it was a truly innovative framework (at the time). How they've maintained the product since is debatable but the tech is solid.

I've used firebase for many apps - albeit not enterprise level - and they have been very performant and efficient. No issues tbh. But ive never paid for firebase so i cannot speak to the paid teir.

All it is under the hood is websockets, no sql db, oauth, and html/js. Yes you COULD write those integrations yourself, but doing it for many apps or for POCs would be tedious and difficult to maintain. firebase was a great playground to go from idea to code to prod quickly.

Is it the best cloud solution for enterprise production or multi tenant saas platforms... Probably not lol

Re: Trying to use Firebase is the most horrible experience in my life

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Post by drewcoo » Sat, Jan 13, 2024, 8:35 AM UTC

phmqk76 wrote: post #16

readthenotes1 wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

So at least one person here doesn't know what droll means. You're getting my upvote because you were able to control yourself and not say get off my lawn. Also, you said what I was going to say. Finally, I wonder if the author is using the literary technique called "hyperbole"? These days, it is hard to know.

You could even say that I was employing irony by calling his humorless comment “droll.” I don’t mean “you,” per se, because you find it hard to know if the author was using hyperbole or was conveying that this was, in fact, the most horrible experience of his life. Do you know what “pedantic” means? And do you think maybe you’re being… that?

Go sleep it off, sock puppet of the original "droll"-sayer account.

That's not what droll means. That's not what irony means. But you have pedantic nailed. As well as un-funny "sarcasm", the word you were probably struggling after . . .