I use it for its main selling point: a realtime backend.
With Firebase, Vue-Fire (Firebase bindings for Vue.js), crossfilter and chart.js, you can whip up a functional and sweet analytics dashboard or [insert pet project here] in a weekend.
It gets the headache of a backend (and user auth) out of the way.
As for security - the Firebase security rules and server side authentication allow you to lock things down.
> With Firebase, Vue-Fire (Firebase bindings for Vue.js), crossfilter and chart.js, you can whip up a functional and sweet analytics dashboard or [insert pet project here] in a weekend.
> It gets the headache of a backend (and user auth) out of the way.
You can get the same if you use other tools.
The realtime stuff is the only big thing they do most other projects don’t, and even for that there are currently several quite well working implementations out there.
Sure. But now I have all this in one service. And when that pet project moves from web to a native app, Firebase has all the trappings to make it easy.
A lot of eggs in one basket admittedly, but that basket looks pretty robust for now.
With Firebase, Vue-Fire (Firebase bindings for Vue.js), crossfilter and chart.js, you can whip up a functional and sweet analytics dashboard or [insert pet project here] in a weekend.
It gets the headache of a backend (and user auth) out of the way.
As for security - the Firebase security rules and server side authentication allow you to lock things down.