That’s awesome as someone that builds NextJs fullstack.
I’ve really enjoyed using Firebase so far as the backend for my in-development chrome extension.
Using Firebase Auth, Cloud Functions, Hosting, Firestore, and the local emulator.
Now if I ever make a NextJs web app, I’d probably use Firebase app hosting
Next week: sunsetting Firebase App Hosting
This seems like Google's version of Vercel, Netlify, AWS Amplify, Cloudflare Pages, etc. But especially Vercel, since they've expanded past basic Node hosting and integrated serverless workers, KV, Postgres, etc. – positioning them to be able to take on Firebase for some use cases.
I'm generally a fan of GCloud over AWS, but I don't see any advantage of this over Vercel. Vercel is way easier to use (as a dev) than anything I've seen in GCloud or Firebase. And them being behind Next.js means it's hard to find a better fit and feature parity (such as for automatic image optimizations) in other hosts... there's vendor lock-in, definitely, but with a much lower risk of overnight sunsetting.
This is a side project for Google that will probably disappear if/when it fails to pick up enough steam. For Vercel, this is their main line of business. Why should anyone choose Firebase?
Serious question: does anyone start new projects these days using angular?
Which happens first: they accidentally delete your account or they close down the product?
So Vercel but for Firebase
App Engine: Redux
Is this the inverse of Vercel + Supabase?
Legendary Google customer service
Support for just two specific js frameworks? Meh
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Christ some of the comments here are so cynical.
I’ve only skimmed the docs so far but I believe they offer a full turnkey no config required solution for 2 frameworks currently but like Cloud Run you can bring literally whatever you like here as a backend assuming you can get it into a container.
Looking over the feature set this honestly looks amazing and is ironically where most businesses want to ultimately get to (everything is integrated, security, performance, logging etc all just work, no resource wastage, proper separation of concerns etc).
Honestly this might actually be the best starting point going on the internet right now for many businesses.