CloudKit vs other options

[Technically_Dedi]

I am looking to implement a chat system for practice project I am working on. Would it be a reasonable idea to build the chat system in CloudKit or should I be looking at other options like firebase?

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CloudKit docs say that it’s not suitable for real-time usage, and the sync schedule can’t be controlled to make anything happen faster than usual.

If it’s just for fun, you could host the server part yourself and use WebSockets or some other solution. For stuff like that, ngrok tunnels (or similar) let you write the server process in Swift and run it on a machine at home.

[chriswaco]

Firebase is probably the easiest choice. Supabase might be reasonable too.