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by nicoburns 617 days ago
For this reason I strongly recommend AGAINST Google Firebase. The local emulator is a big improvement over not having one, but it still absolutely sucks compared to a stack where you can run the production versions of the tools locally.

If you really need a 3rd-party Auth solution then it could be good for that. Otherwise I would recommend to sticking to open source tools on top of a hosting provider that gives you containers and a managed (postgres or mysql) database.
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CharlieDigital 617 days ago
It's easy enough to integrate with Google Cloud Run.

I run a mix; some apps are pure Firebase and Functions. Some run Cloud Run serverless containers connected to Supabase upstream and Pg container locally.

Firebase is quite flexible as a chunk of it is a facade for Google Cloud services (storage, auth API, CDN, Cloud Run).

Very flexible model of upscaling services progressively. Functions -> Cloud Run -> GKE Autopilot -> GKE

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