Serverless with Firebase in the wild
summary
Rewriting a legacy webforms app (10,000 paying customers) into a serverless stack takes three devs about nine months and roughly $100k, using Angular/TypeScript front-end, Firebase Hosting, Authentication, Cloud Firestore, Cloud Storage and Cloud Functions 9-minute timeout to glue things together. Full-text search requires Algolia (adds ~$50–$200/month) and Firestore has no full-text search in Firestore and complex security rules, forcing many writes through functions; large Excel imports needed a separate VM. Overall the stack works but demands different data modeling and operational tradeoffs.
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chapters (13)
- 0:00Start
- 3:17Cloud Firestore
- 7:33What Is Service with Firebase
- 8:22What Is Firebase Today
- 10:57How Does It Work
- 18:26Firebase Deploy
- 22:54Firebase Ui for Web and for Mobile
- 30:16Full-Text Search
- 35:14Security Rules
- 38:41Functions
- 45:54Onboarding New Developers
- 48:07Would I Use Firebase Again
- 50:17Summary
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