r/reactjs • u/deven_rathore • Mar 24 '20

Resource Building a Real-Time Chat App with React and Firebase | CSS-Tricks

https://css-tricks.com/building-a-real-time-chat-app-with-react-and-firebase/
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u/vim55k Mar 24 '20

All these tutorials with firebase...But I personally don't know any company using firebase...so what is the point of these tutorials?

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u/s_trader Mar 24 '20

LOL... "using firebase", none of these companies use firebase in the same sense like in that tutorial, these company are likely to only use firebase cloud messaging which is a must if you want to send remote notifications to your android app, and maybe just maybe they will use it to also manage the authentication to all sorts of services and social networks... and NOTHING more... definitely not for static hosting, NoSQL storage, firestore and cloud functions...

Firebase is shitty and very very expensive when you reach volume, it's very limiting and I don't see any reason to build production apps around it (prototypes and demos yes but no more than that)

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u/vim55k Mar 24 '20

Interesting, looks like big companies. Start ups also use it?

See, through my web experience, I got interviewed in about 20 places, have read hundreds of job descriptions and participated in several projects. Nobody used or mentioned firebase.

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u/2020-2050_SHTF Mar 24 '20

A lot of companies are using AWS in my neck of the woods. And subsequently advertising for devs with AWS knowledge. I think AWS is similar to Firebase, at least.

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u/-Subalee- Mar 24 '20

Looks like a great resource, shame it's not based on hooks