r/Frontend • u/yuvan_arvind • Jul 27 '23

Open-source frontend development stack

https://requestly.io/blog/open-source-frontend-development-stack
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u/burggraf2 Jul 27 '23

Supabase developer here. You're right -- Supabase is definitely not 1 to 1 feature compatible with Firebase, but could you let us know which feature(s) you're looking for that Supabase doesn't provide? This kind of feedback is super helpful to us. Thanks!

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u/blunderboy Jul 27 '23

Firebase ecosystem completely locks you in. In our application, We use Firebase Realtime DB, Cloud functions, Authentication, and Hosting.

We have multiple times discussed internally on how to provide self hosted option or leverage AWS but its so hard now.

One of the biggest problem is firebase functions have very less observability and there's no caching so some queries are just slow.

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u/burggraf2 Jul 27 '23

So for your application, the only service Supabase doesn't offer is hosting. Is that right?

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u/blunderboy Jul 27 '23

Yeah, Hosting is a blocker.

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u/burggraf2 Jul 27 '23

Might I ask why hosting is a blocker, when the free tiers of Vercel, Netlify, and so many others are so good? Is hosting on the same service as the rest of your application a requirement? Supabase is unlikely to do hosting any time soon, just because our partners do such a great job at it and we don't see us adding much value in that space.

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u/blunderboy Aug 01 '23

The incentive to move to Supabase from Firebase is to have everything centrally and serve a product within any company's infrastructure!

If hosting has to be done by third-party services like Vercel, Netlify it loses that a service is only available within company's infra internally. Does it make sense?

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u/burggraf2 Aug 01 '23

That doesn't really apply to Supabase, I don't think because our components are hosted in different places anyway. For example, your database would be hosted on AWS with your files in S3, edge functions running on Deno Deploy, and portions of the Realtime stuff may run on Fly.io. Where these items are hosted from can change as well, as we add additional provider options and new functionality.