[com2kid]

> One thing I didn't see mentioned in this article is Firebase.

Can confirm, I'm also building my startup off of Firebase.

Super easy to get up and running with. I was talking to a friend at Amazon about how I create serverless HTTP entpoints and he was impressed that getting started with it was a 10 minute affair from "never done backend programming" to "REST endpoint setup." Another half an hour got me full end to end auth working from my app to my endpoints through to Firebase DB. FWIW I haven't investigated what it'd take to do the same within Amazon's eco-system, but from what I've gathered I'd have to understand a few more concepts than the simple "npm run deploy" that is the heart of Firebase's serverless offering.

Firebase's serverless stuff is dead simple. Wish the emulator was better though, I can'd do encrypted endpoints on localhost, which means 90% of my API can't be tested locally. Having to deploy to the actual service seriously adds to my code-deploy-debug loop!

[jbarham]

> I can'd do encrypted endpoints on localhost, which means 90% of my API can't be tested locally. Having to deploy to the actual service seriously adds to my code-deploy-debug loop!

Try using ngrok (https://ngrok.com/). It can forward public HTTPS to localhost HTTP.

[trevordixon]

I run a service that fixes this problem. https://serveo.net/ It uses SSH port forwarding to proxy public HTTPS traffic to your local server.