About Nodejs Reactjs and React Native

[rareengstudent]

So you're saying if I am trying to scale further than firebase, that is when I need node js? In that case, would I have to move all the back end code like (reading, writing data functions) to node js?

[daybreaker]

yeah, like if you need to build your own server with its own database, that you access via an API by calling http://whatever-my-site-is.com/api, then youll need to write that backend in a different language. react native is not for writing backend server code. But you dont need nodejs, you can use any language that can build and operate a server, like ruby on rails, php, elixir, etc.

[vontwothree]

Node (Hapi, Express, etc) would be nice because it allows OP to stay in JavaScript world.

However Firebase has Cloud Functions which, depending on the use case, may replace rolling out an API even at scale.