action-hosting-deploy VS dbmate

Could they not have their own FB to develop against? Does every dev need to use just yours? If that is the case, then you'd need to use https://support.google.com/firebase/answer/7000272?hl=en also, it looks to be possible to include Firebase in your GitHub for them to pull from https://firebase.google.com/docs/hosting/github-integration

Github Actions is the way to go for this: https://firebase.google.com/docs/hosting/github-integration

Whenever a Pull Request is created we need to be able to quickly checkout the changes. Reading code diff is great, but sometimes you just need to tinker with the new version, test it on mobile, different browsers and OS. Cloud services are perfect for this case, they allow you to deploy the code temporarily and access it with a link from any device. We chose Firebase to host it for us and a Github action posts a link to the deployment as a comment in the Pull Request. It works like a charm and speeds up code reviews a lot. Read this article to set it up on your repository!

Lambdas and firebase on the GCP stack for CRUD apps.

One nice thing about firebase -> each PR deploys to its own preview channel[1].

Downside: Very JS heavy. I write lambdas in python though.

[1] https://firebase.google.com/docs/hosting/github-integration

Google Firebase has a pretty straightforward guide to setting up auto-deploy from Github, which you can take a look at here: https://firebase.google.com/docs/hosting/github-integration

What is the easiest way for setting up CI/CD from GH for Firebase functions? Maybe something like this for hosting, but only for functions?

Note: you can find more info about the used steps actions here actions/checkout@v2 and here FirebaseExtended/action-hosting-deploy@v0

A regular code repo with the scripts (with pull/merge requests for review) and then a CI job that builds containers with something like dbmate https://github.com/amacneil/dbmate that can then be run against any staging/prod environment.

As we want to maintain the track of our changes to the DB, we are going to use migrations. In this case, we are going to use dbmate. But, you can use any other tool you want.

> For example having database migrations built in etc.

I actually went the exact opposite route, at least when possible: https://github.com/amacneil/dbmate

Pure SQL migrations, regardless of the back end technology that you use, completely decoupled from how each framework/library views things and therefore not dependent on them (you could even rewrite the back end in another technology later on, if needed; or swap ORMs; or avoid issues when there's a major ORM version update).

It's really nice when you can generate entity mappings based on a live database, like with https://blog.jetbrains.com/dotnet/2022/01/31/entity-framewor...

So in my case, I can have:

  * a DB that has migrations applied with dbmate, completely decoupled from any back end(s) that might use it

You can run dbmate as part of your CI/CD pipeline. You just keep a dbmate directory in your repo and deploy migrations with your code.

In general with ORMs, you will face a problem in one way or another. I ended up simply using https://github.com/gajus/slonik and https://github.com/amacneil/dbmate for migrations. My life is way much better since then.

I like dbmate, super simple and straightforward to use. For your specific use case, it can also be configured using your .env!

Would always go for a language agnostic migration tool, e.g. https://github.com/amacneil/dbmate to stay flexible and stay away from lock-in effects (besides sql).