Jack Heaton

The start-up guides, tutorials and documentation in general for Firebase are pretty outstanding.

There is 1GB database storage for the free tier as compared to Supabase's 500MB. Not that I think there is anything wrong with Supabase, I intend to try it out someday.

Also if you are doing any sort of personal front-end project, even using a free cluster from MongoDB can be a lot of work and setup, with Firebase (specifically Fire store and Google Authenticator) the implementation of BaaS is quite easy to get up and running.

It's pretty easy to understand the Fires store security rules as well, and if you ever have a hard time trying to figure something out, there is good community support and YouTube tutorials for most topics.

As a still new-ish developer, I find that sometimes I run into these obscure bugs, that seemingly should have been caught. For example:

Trying to access an object property by it's name, only to find out all properties are named and ordered by their index. Then having to figure out when that happened.

TypeScript helped me with this, but beyond that it helped me become a better developer by enforcing more strict rules around my code and alerting my to things I might not have thought about.

If you are a JavaScript Dev and up for a bit of a challenge and change of pace, I would strongly recommend TypeScript.

The fact the code "self-documents" is also really helpful. So you know exactly what is supposed to be going on in your code.

I still have plain JavaScript in my stack, because sometimes TypeScript doesn't like playing nicely with others (say for example with Node/ Express.js projects using an ORM that has its own Typing).

I have seen how great OneNote is, however, I feel like the "programatic style" of Notion is a lot better for me to take notes in.

The ability to embed code and have basic syntax highlighting is fantastic.

Another great feature of Notion is its 'databases' which are like Excel Sheets on steroids, where each cell can contain a specific 'card' (just a page to store information) which you can add custom properties to - making filtering, searching and sorting a breeze.

There is a small learning curve, but it is well worth it.

VS Code is great, but for advanced functionality it requires a lot of plugins.

I wanted out of the box performance, with a more integrated approach (WebStorm still has a lot of plugins, but I feel they work better together).

Now keep in mind, WebStorm is not light weight, if I just need to look at something or make a small change, I would use Vim or Atom.

If anyone wants a robust IDE jam packed with functionality and is tired of VS Code, WebStorm is a fantastic choice IMO.