The biggest, nastiest problem with Cloud Functions is that they’re tough to test.
I love starting new projects!
Google Cloud Functions has been stuck on Node 6 since launch.
But Google Cloud’s Next conference is this week, and they just announced the new Node 8 runtime.
I’d like to talk about my favorite feature of Firebase Authentication.
You probably haven’t heard of it, because it’s buried in one of the “getting started” guides in the Firebase docs and nobody reads ALL OF THE DOCS!
If you’ve been keeping up on Firebase in the last year then you’re likely using Firestore.
Firestore is a bit of a successor to the original Firebase Realtime Database.
Firebase is a cloud datastore that’s accessible directly from any connected client. Because any client can connect to any Firebase, you must write security rules to secure your…
Cloud Functions for Firebase are Google’s serverless solution for Firebase apps. They can be used as the (R)eactor functions for FIRE Stack app architecture. If you’ve developed with firebase-queue, AWS Lambda or some other Functions-as-a-Service architecture, Cloud Functions…
I spend a lot of time advocating for Firebase. I’ve been Firebase-monogamous since 2014, when I kissed the last of my MySQL code goodbye and good riddance.