Firebase Reviews and Ratings

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use it as a backend and a database for mobile apps. It's easy to use which is perfect as our staff is junior in the backend development. Additionally, it has a tight integration with the FlutterFlow platform which we use to build apps.

Likelihood to Recommend

It's great for junior level developer and it's great in case you need to build apps quickly (e.g. startup that wants to test out an app idea). I'd advise using another database (in addition to Firebase database) to optimize costs (e.g. SQL Lite).

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use Firebase to provide mobile app analytics. This includes events such page views, app feature usages, and other life cycle metrics. It helps us determine where our marketing spend is working by attributing app downloads to our campaigns, measure the lifespan of our users, and how our app is being used so we can make necessary app enhancements.

Likelihood to Recommend

I would recommend any app use Firebase as a baseline measurement tool for analytics. With the low barrier to entry, the SDK makes it easy to quickly add to your mobile application. Unless you have legal risk or warning to not use it, I think it's a no brainer.

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

I used Firebase to build a webapp using Cursor, an AI coding tool. Cursor suggested Firebase as the database.

Likelihood to Recommend

Firebase is a good enough database for non-technical users. However, if you are using Lovable which is one of the most popular AI code editor, Supabase is a better choice as it is already integrated within the Lovable interface.

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use Firebase (FB) as a backend for new FlutterFlow projects. It is easily integrated with the product and for a while was the only choice. However I would greatly prefer tabular(SQL) data to FB when it comes to any function that you need to write.

Likelihood to Recommend

If you are looking to spin up something quick, a proof of concept, or to be first to market AND your code tool is tightly integrated with Firebase then go for it. Not having to make formal schema changes is definitely helpful. However the error checking involved around that can be a nightmare.

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

As manufacturers of electronic equipment interconnected through the IoT Cloud, we needed a robust backend technology that could easily scale as our user base grew. The solution that we needed was to include a real-time database as well as the possibility of executing functions in the cloud according to that database received the data of our clients, for example, sending push notifications.

Likelihood to Recommend

Firebase has been excellent for us when we have to update information in real-time between our IoT hardware devices, and our users' mobile applications, integration with ANDROID and IOS is excellent. In addition, given that our client base is constantly growing, FIREBASE adapts the processing capacity automatically. Being a payment platform that bills each operation, for example, writing, reading a database, bandwidth used, etc. I do not suggest its use in projects that are not lucrative since as the user base grows, the bill to pay will also grow!

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use Firebase together with its documentary base called Firestore to execute all the transactional processes of our web app, using both its authentication and user administration system, as well as its potential as a backend for the application that we have developed in Angular and Node Js. It's one of the main reasons we went for GCP instead of AWS or Azure

Likelihood to Recommend

It is an excellent tool for the fast and simple development of web app-type applications, with a very intuitive handling and a very comfortable UI to manage and maintain applications. Its main virtue is that it allows you not to have to worry about scalability or instance management, which makes it a different product from what we find in other cloud providers.

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We used Firebase to keep track of the attendance of students in our class. The database is relatively fast for storing attendance. It doe take a little while to set up. User authentication works well. It takes some time to set up it. One thing about the authentication that bothers us is that you can not reset the password directly. When a user creates their account, Firebase gives the user the ability to set the initial password. But afterward, Firebase only lets you reset the password by email.

Likelihood to Recommend

Firebase provides a backend for your mobile app. It's good platform to start your app and provides a way to scale your app. You can use the free authentication with phone numbers and email. You will need some technical skills and time to setup. You may even require someone to help you setup the database because there are many options. However, after a few times, the setup is easy. There is a learning curve.

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We are using Firebase Authentication for backend services authentication and for users to authenticate on our app. We were facing an issue with backend services authentication.

Likelihood to Recommend

Firebase is very well suited for authenticating backend services & for authenticating users on your app.

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use Firebase as a supplemental product to Google Analytics. We have some pains around Google Analytics not being the best tool when it comes to user behavior analytics across platforms & devices. Firebase solved this issue for us and we're now able to get a holistic picture of our users engage with our product.

Likelihood to Recommend

Well suited for product & engineering teams looking to increase development velocity and add additional personalization touch points throughout the user journey. Also allows the team to get a holistic picture of how the users are interacting with our product across devices.

Not very well suited for tech stacks that utilize a lot of microservices.

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Firebase is used to create new native applications with a NoSQL code base. The platform allows to create any type of applications like social networks, games, news and applications like streaming video and music thanks to its video player plugin.

Likelihood to Recommend

Firebase is a scalable, flexible, and secure solution that you can trust. It uses a NoSQL database to monitor in real time the traffic of visits to your web application.