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Oh man. This is great. Firebase is now a one-stop shop for the majority of app infrastructure needs, and really is the closest thing to a "serverless" infrastructure. Vendor lock-in aside, I can't think of a reason not to use it, at the MVP level at least.

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Firebase offers a lot, but it's no longer the only game in town that offers a sorta-serverless baas. Here are some compelling alternatives (I'd love to see a complete list of the best Firebase alternatives):

- https://www.syncano.io

- https://www.graph.cool

- https://www.backand.com

I'm omitting things like feathers.js b/c the most attractive feature of Firebase-like tools is not having to manage your own server/database.

https://www.deepstreamhub.com might be worth to take a look as well

We are moving from Firebase to Feathers js + PostgreSQL running on Heroku. Zero server/database configuration or managing needed.

Being able to have data relationships and real querying is a big plus over Firebase.

And https://scaphold.io!

I'll give you one: this won't work in China.

I'm in the process of migrating a few GAE services to AppScale on AWS (Beijing) to set up a separate backend for the China-localized version of a mobile app. AppScale supports a lot of App Engine functionality, but not other Google services. No Firebase or GCM for me.

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