About to try firebase as my backend. Any tips, suggestions, or anything under the sun?

[mikkodimapasoc]

Hiiii. First post in here. I`m about to try firebase as my backend for my next.js applications. Would probably use it too for authentication. It would be my first time doing this(past experience was with REST Api using node and express), any suggestions, or tips or anything?

Stay safe!

[lfades]

Get started as soon as possible 👍

Firebase is a very good service and Next.js can take care of anything you may want to build with it.

[leerob]

+1

• Check out these React hooks the Firebase team is working on: https://github.com/FirebaseExtended/reactfire
• If you need to use Firebase inside getStaticProps/getServerSideProps, these run in the Node context. You'll need to connect to Firebase Admin, which is different than client-side Firebase.
• If you do end up adding Firebase Admin and you're stuck adding environment variables with Vercel, see this comment

Here's two example repos that might help for reference:

• https://github.com/leerob/nextjs-vercel-firebase
• https://github.com/leerob/fastfeedback

[mikkodimapasoc]

Thank you guys!
Stay safe!