Aug 25, 2017 · 1 min read
Great article, Cathryn. We’ve been using Firebase and Cloud Functions to power our entire product across mobile devices and the web for a year now. Prior to the launch of GCF in March we were building our services in a Node environment and using the firebase-admin Node package. So even before GCF you could use Firebase on the backend. However, almost from day 1 when GCF became available, we transitioned to utilizing those and it has been fantastic. I find this stack a lot of fun to work with,