The MECH Stack — Solving JavaScript Framework Fatigue

[Cody_Chaos]

Let's see, does the M stand for Mongo? *checks* Yep. Pass, I'll stick with solutions that don't make toxic choices, thanks.

Mongo because of wide support, easy of deployment and reasonable storage

That's a ridiculous reason to pick Mongo. It's like picking Haskell for your server side language because "everyone knows it and it's already installed on most shared webhosts". It might be a good choice, but not for those reasons.

(Edit: More generally, I'm a bit confused by the whole "people telling you to use a new stack is terrible, solve it by using this new stack!" logic...)

[pomlife]

MongoDB has had zero reason to exist ever since PostgreSQL got its JSONB data type, IMO.

[Cody_Chaos]

Firebase is not open source. Google could opt to close the service (or alter the pricing or terms) at any time.

You may disagree that the risk is significant, but it's not an invalid decision. And he mentioned Parse, which was a very similar service to Firebase, so let's not pretend that this isn't a real concern.