> It gears itself towards frontend developers who don't know how to write a backend, and encourages bad practices for them. One example: Firebase lets you manually edit production data very easily from within their dashboard. Like it's treated almost like it's a CSV.
This is truly spot on. I'm one of those devs who couldn't write a good backend when I first began coding out apps (as a hobby). Started out with firebase because that was the tool used by most YouTube videos and Medium blog posts introducing people to app development. In the end, I eventually had to learn other technologies such as using Elasticsearch, DynamoDB (which I would also stay the hell away from) and PostGRES.
Thankfully Supabase decided to stay away from the NoSQL format, so learning how to get started with PostGRES was made smoother.
Looking back I don't even know why I jumped into using Firebase, since I do have a pretty good footing in SQL querying. I don't know why Google isn't bothering with an Elasticsearch-like NoSQL solution for Firebase. And quite frankly, I would only use Firebase for Auth and RTDB for basic database stuff. If I had known this earlier, I might have saved months of learning Firebase Cloud Firestore crap online.
This is truly spot on. I'm one of those devs who couldn't write a good backend when I first began coding out apps (as a hobby). Started out with firebase because that was the tool used by most YouTube videos and Medium blog posts introducing people to app development. In the end, I eventually had to learn other technologies such as using Elasticsearch, DynamoDB (which I would also stay the hell away from) and PostGRES.
Thankfully Supabase decided to stay away from the NoSQL format, so learning how to get started with PostGRES was made smoother.
Looking back I don't even know why I jumped into using Firebase, since I do have a pretty good footing in SQL querying. I don't know why Google isn't bothering with an Elasticsearch-like NoSQL solution for Firebase. And quite frankly, I would only use Firebase for Auth and RTDB for basic database stuff. If I had known this earlier, I might have saved months of learning Firebase Cloud Firestore crap online.