[mcapodici]

Firebase is good for getting started quickly as it provides the hosting, scaling and web and mobile apis in one place. It is proprietary though - but not too hard to move a codebase to Parse later if you needed to.

I have built an open source starter kit for web apps built on NextJS and Firebase: https://firestarterapp.com. And intend to smooth out bugs and add more features over the coming days and weeks.