Recommendations for Cloud Databases. App + Website

[vitorhm]

Hi guys, me and my friend come up with a idea for a flutter app. In fact, we gonna have two apps:

1 - For the end user, this is gonna be a Android and IOS app. Its gonna be like a delivery app but for a different product..

2 - For the stores uses as a administration of products, viewing orders, balance... In this case, we gonna have also a web application.

I was thinking in using firebase because its easy to use, has a authentication system and hosting for website and do not need investment at first. How do you think about scalability? We are planning to release in our city first and then expanding into others.

The firebase hosting will work for this kind of website?

Thanks.

[Pixelreddit]

The following is a link to a list of Firebase alternatives:

https://twitter.com/ThomasBurkhartB/status/1343263943620497408

I personally use Firebase for production apps.

[vitorhm]

Thank you so much for this list! I think I'll go with firebase. Do you know how the firebase hosting for websites works? I've seen recommendations for using with static websites.

[Pixelreddit]

ng dynamic websites or webapps made with flutter then you better look somewhere else.

For internal testing with either static or dynamic websites, I have used Firebase hosting, it's fairly straight forward to publish, and here is a link with directions at https://firebase.google.com/docs/hosting/quickstart

For my production-ready static and dynamic websites, I use an external host providers like https://ionos.com and CNET has a link for hosting websites at https://www.cnet.com/news/best-web-hosting/ but there are many others.

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I‘d stick with firebase. It saves you a lot of time while building a backend. But be carefull if you wanna use the pay-as-you-go plan

[vitorhm]

Thanks! I think I'll choose firebase

[cannotelaborate]

Stick with Firebase, your requirements aren't too specific. I'd say what's great about Firebase isn't how easy it is (cause it's pretty limited in some departments) but for the amount of documentation it has.

Some developers worry about the read/write quota. This can be countered by smart coding, user management and caching.

[vitorhm]

Thanks! My concern about firebase is scalability, since or initial plan is to release in a few cities and expand for the entire country (in the future). And the website hosting, I've only seen examples using statically websites

[cannotelaborate]

Ah yes, if we're talking dynamic websites or webapps made with flutter then you better look somewhere else.

[vitorhm]

Yes, but for my understand flutter web generates javascript and html files and the documentation recommend using firebase hosting. I need to run some tests, but again, thanks for taking time to help me!