The Firebase Story
I like Firebase, but will never use it unless I absolutely have to. It&#x27;s not anything they&#x27;ve done, it&#x27;s what happened to Parse. I built a half dozen apps using Parse as the cloud backend because it was so easy.<p>My last project my CTO chose Parse to build a backend for a Website. Parse Cloud Code was fairly limited, we&#x27;d have to do a separate server for Stripe for example, but again it made the specific client project really easy to do (and he had been tasked on building it really cheap given our crazy CEO had given the client a fixed bid). I knew it was screwy but said &quot;At least we can be confident that Parse isn&#x27;t going away any time soon&quot; since Facebook had bought them.<p>I finished the site on time, on budget, the web service demoed great at it&#x27;s launch show, and the client signed up a ton of customers and was just waiting for our e-commerce implementation to launch their important new business.<p>Then Parse was canceled.