firebase-admin-node VS django-rest-framework

Google has an Edge Network, but they push serverless functions like Cloud Run, which is also what version 2 of Firebase Cloud Functions use. Firebase Functions need a Version 3, which is built on the Edge. However, first Firebase, specifically firebase-admin would need to work on the edge. Google, who makes Angular, might then be able to compete better for deployment options. Cold Starts are terrible and should die IMHO, unless you have have specific use cases for them.

There's a lot of different ways to skin this cat, the easiest would be to use a client library like firebase storage to upload the photo directly and you can get an image url from that to use. If you are trying to send it your own API, then you probably want to set up a multipart http request to attach the image and then with your admin storage library of choice to upload the image. I have done the second one before with ktor and firebase admin sdk .

Hi, I've recently gave supabase a shot to as an alternative to firebase because I needed SQL. One thing that I've struggled with from the start is that supabase seems to ignore backends completely.

I don't want to use supabase edge functions, since I want to keep it simple with a single express backend and don't want to be vendor-locked.

In firebase, the Admin SDK https://firebase.google.com/docs/admin/setup solves this, but seems to be missing in supabase. For example, for a simple JWT verification, I had to go to old github issues, rather than finding the answer in the docs. https://github.com/supabase/supabase/issues/491#issuecomment...

IMO, the best supporting runtime for firebase would either be nodejs or flutter. Along with firebase admin, you could technically fullstack JS/TS and have better-than-average support for the firebase ecosystem (e.g. NextJS for frontend/apis, react native for mobile). However, it doesn't mean you can't use .NET with firebase.

Without looking too far into errors other people had, it seemed like it had to do with syncing clocks (what a strange error) - the problem could go away if you reissue a different service account key from the console or sync your local clock(???)

The one thing I was missing for my latest experiment was a reliable way to authenticate users and allow them access to their profile. There are other services that can be easily integrated but they can get quite expensive. Firebase on the other hand has a good free quota; perfect for this use case so I started by installing the Firebase Admin SDK. But alas the admin sdk has some dependencies on nodejs which are not included in the workers/functions runtime. 🤦‍♂️

- Django Rest Framework has no async support? https://github.com/encode/django-rest-framework/issues/7260

A URL shortener is a service that transforms long and complex URLs into short, easily memorable ones. This tutorial guides you through creating a URL shortener using Django REST framework and Postgres, deploying it on Koyeb.

Now, I'm converting this app into a Vue-based SPA (still powered by Django). I'm using the Django REST Framework to build the API that the SPA will interact with. (I'll be using token-based auth, via django-rest-knox. ETA: I'll actually be using djangorestframework-simplejwt.)

For the backend, we chose Python, Django Rest Framework. On the frontend, React, Redux, Saga, Sass. Let’s start with the backend, which was managed by Yegor. He writes about the server part of the project himself.

With regard to JSON API aspects of Django, have you used https://www.django-rest-framework.org/ ? I find it to be very satisfactory.

django-rest-framework and the Fetch API, or

Django REST Framework (DRF) Django REST Framework is a famous, powerful, and flexible toolkit for building Web APIs in Django. It provides a set of reusable components and tools to simplify API development, including serialization, authentication, permissions, and view sets.

I wish Django would take async more seriously. This comment gives a pretty good overview of the current situation (some points are more valid than others): https://github.com/encode/django-rest-framework/discussions/...

The Python ecosystem is strange. Where other dev communities will embrace new ways of doing things faster than most people can keep up — the Python community needs to be pulled kicking and screaming into the light once ever decade or so. Python 2 to 3, ~10 years.

async/await has been in Python since 2015, it feels like it's going to be another 5 years before we see people taking async seriously in the big packages. Same problem we had during the 2/3 transition. No library support, no developer support.

Thanks for helping Steve to complete his REST API, he is now partying🥳. You can get more information on how to use the Django REST framework to best way read the documentation. There are many alternatives to the Django REST framework, you can give them a try if you want,

[Django Rest Framework](https://www.django-rest-framework.org/) has the very nice idea of a [ViewSet](https://www.django-rest-framework.org/api-guide/viewsets/#modelviewset) that allows really minimal code to perform all the basic CRUD actions on a model.