Why developers like Cloud Functions for Firebase

What is Cloud Functions for Firebase?

Cloud Functions for Firebase lets you create functions that are triggered by Firebase products, such as changes to data in the Realtime Database, uploads to Cloud Storage, new user sign ups via Authentication, and conversion events in Analytics.

Cloud Functions for Firebase is a tool in the Serverless / Task Processing category of a tech stack.

Who uses Cloud Functions for Firebase?

Companies

116 companies reportedly use Cloud Functions for Firebase in their tech stacks, including Barogo, Bepro Company, and Colavosalon.

Barogo

Bepro Company

Colavosalon

WISESIGHT

Jounce

Backend

Bunch

Superset

Resilire Technology ...

Developers

338 developers on StackShare have stated that they use Cloud Functions for Firebase.

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Julian's Full-Stack

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Cloud Functions for Firebase Integrations

Firebase, Google Cloud Storage, Cloud Firestore, Google Cloud Pub/Sub, and Google Cloud Functions are some of the popular tools that integrate with Cloud Functions for Firebase. Here's a list of all 8 tools that integrate with Cloud Functions for Firebase.

Firebase

Google Cloud Storage

Cloud Firestore

Google Cloud Pub ...

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Radar.io

Onboardbase

Pros of Cloud Functions for Firebase

Up and running

Multi-region

Affordable

Decisions about Cloud Functions for Firebase

Here are some stack decisions, common use cases and reviews by companies and developers who chose Cloud Functions for Firebase in their tech stack.

nir asaf

Apr 1, 2020 | 5 upvotes · 38.2K views

Needs advice

Cloud Functions for Firebase

Cloud Firestore

and

Vue.js

I am building a platform for a health provider using Vue.js with Cloud Firestore and Cloud Functions for Firebase. Some of the app features are: Video chat, Chat 1 to 1 Payment - using Stripe Mange clients - CRM

I am debating whether to stay with Cloud Firestore and Cloud Functions for Firebase as my backend (using ExpressJS) I built it in a way that will be easy to change to Rest API with other DB, but not sure if I want to keep using Firestore

Eugene Cheah

CTO at Uilicious · Mar 27, 2019 | 13 upvotes · 511.2K views

Migrated

from

Firebase

Cloud Functions for Firebase

CloudFlare

UI licious

For inboxkitten.com, an opensource disposable email service;

We migrated our serverless workload from Cloud Functions for Firebase to CloudFlare workers, taking advantage of the lower cost and faster-performing edge computing of Cloudflare network. Made possible due to our extremely low CPU and RAM overhead of our serverless functions.

If I were to summarize the limitation of Cloudflare (as oppose to firebase/gcp functions), it would be ...

<5ms CPU time limit
Incompatible with express.js
one script limitation per domain

Limitations our workload is able to conform with (YMMV)

For hosting of static files, we migrated from Firebase to CommonsHost

More details on the trade-off in between both serverless providers is in the article

Why we migrated opensource 😼inboxkitten (77 million serverless request) from 🔥Firebase to ☁️Cloudflare workers & 🐑CommonsHost - DEV Community 👩‍💻👨‍💻

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Cloud Functions for Firebase Alternatives & Comparisons

What are some alternatives to Cloud Functions for Firebase?

Firebase

Firebase is a cloud service designed to power real-time, collaborative applications. Simply add the Firebase library to your application to gain access to a shared data structure; any changes you make to that data are automatically synchronized with the Firebase cloud and with other clients within milliseconds.

Google Cloud Functions

Construct applications from bite-sized business logic billed to the nearest 100 milliseconds, only while your code is running

AWS Lambda

AWS Lambda is a compute service that runs your code in response to events and automatically manages the underlying compute resources for you. You can use AWS Lambda to extend other AWS services with custom logic, or create your own back-end services that operate at AWS scale, performance, and security.

Serverless

Build applications comprised of microservices that run in response to events, auto-scale for you, and only charge you when they run. This lowers the total cost of maintaining your apps, enabling you to build more logic, faster. The Framework uses new event-driven compute services, like AWS Lambda, Google CloudFunctions, and more.

Azure Functions

Azure Functions is an event driven, compute-on-demand experience that extends the existing Azure application platform with capabilities to implement code triggered by events occurring in virtually any Azure or 3rd party service as well as on-premises systems.

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