Do I use Heroku, Netlify or Firebase for My React Gatsby Realtime Application?
So the last few weeks, I have been working on creating an application generator for real-time applications. One of the primary requirements is that it needs to include everything out of the gate an application engineer will need. This also means platform deployment.
Ok cool. I’ll start with small platforms like Heroku, Firebase and Netlify while I work my way up to the larger AWS, GCP and Azure platforms.
First up — Netlify.
Netlify For Real-Time Apps?
I’ll be honest. I was excited to work with Netlify as I heard good things about it. It promises to seamlessly hook into your git repository and automatically build and deploy your static sites & cloud functions into the cloud.
No pipelines needed.
Build and deployment. Done for you.
That makes my life developing an application generator easy. Wipe my hands clean and poof.
Benefits
- Perfect for Static Site Generated UIs: ok. Netlify is cool. It is really great for deploying static site generated apps. The LunarBaby app generator uses React Gatsby under the hood and It’s great. Netlify knew everything to do. I didn’t have to do any kind of…