Comment by heresjohnny

I was tempted to use Firebase for a new project because it looked so easy. I’m fairly fluent in Angular and it integrates extremely smoothly, so at a surface level it would be the perfect choice for the backend.

Stories like yours – thank you for sharing – plus horror reports about sudden 20k bills have prevented me from taking the “cloud” leap. I’m very glad I didn’t, especially because I also learned lots by setting up a web server and the application layer myself.