[unoti]

I used to use Firebase. I was ecstatic about the fact that I didn’t need a server.

Then I spent months where Whenever I needed to solve a use case I’d spend more time thinking about how to structure my data, how to secure it. I’d spend a lot less time actually building features and more time twisting myself into knots figuring out how to make it work with security rules. It feels backwards to me to have security dictacte the structure of my data rather than the business needs.

I switched to Azure functions front ending my data, which resides in Cosmos DB. Now I can structure my data in a way that suits the business need. Security is incomparably easier now and more flexible.

[swyx]

have you tried Firestore? meant to solve exactly this complaint about firebase. but of coure not gonna beat a more customizable solution