Has anyone used Firebase as a backend for their Saas?
Hi everyone,
I would want to know if anybody has used Firebase purely as a backend. I'm not familiar with it, but would be interested to release an MVP using it.
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Hi everyone,
I would want to know if anybody has used Firebase purely as a backend. I'm not familiar with it, but would be interested to release an MVP using it.
I'm currently building a b2b sass on Firebase.
Awesome to hear that! How's your devx been so far?
Pretty good.
Authentication was really easy to setup. I'm hosting my backend as an Express app and querying Firestore on the backend. I'm doing this so I have the ability to add lots of business logic and it will also be easier to switch off Firestore if I ever want in the future.
The only thing I don't like so far is Firestore's limited querying capabilities, like not having negated queries or aggregations. These are pretty big negatives in my opinion since I'm not actually using Firestore's real-time features, but my next paragraph explains why I'm willing to deal with the trade-off.
The biggest thing about Firebase for me is that I don't have to worry about devops at all. As a one man team, I find this incredibly valuable. There is enough to worry about already so not having to worry about a server or database going down at 3am is NICE. My app is going to scale with each customer individually and I really don't have to worry about a spike in users causing me any infrastructure issues.
Gee, yes not having to worry about infrastructure issues is always great as a solo dev. The querying capability is what put me off using Firestore, going back to postgres roots :D
Thanks for sharing this!
Firebase is the backend for MastermindJam.com. And IndieHackers, IIRC.
I use it for the membership platform; the marketing site is WP.
Interesting! Thanks for the inputs @KenW
Currently using firebase for my projects but I heard bad things using firebase for bigger projects. How real is it that?