firecms VS flyctl

FireCMS is a free, open-source headless CMS based on Firebase, that both developers and content manager will love 🚀 #firebase #cms #content

firecms

May I introduce to you firecms.co

Been looking into fireCms.co an extendable gui for interacting with firebase Firestone and storage .

I like FireCMS. It requires a little bit of customization but it's very flexible.

We run firecms.co which is a React and Firebase-based CMS.

However, you can use Firebase for free. Firebase is a BaaS and offers a pretty generous free tier for hosting, database, etc. There are a few CMS options for Firebase. For my current portfolio, I use FireCMS to manage all the content on my site. After the content is updated in FireCMS, my frontend will retrieve the new data making it super easy to publish new content.

A quick google found me this: https://firecms.co/

You are now encouraged to make all your suggestions and ask questions in the Github discussion tab of the project: https://github.com/Camberi/firecms since it is more appropriate

To begin visit fly.io to create an account. Next install flyctl a command line tool for creating and deploying fly apps. macOS

For frontend deployment, I used Netlify (for the generous free package) and the recommended fly.io for server + database (also cheap package).

Create an account on Fly.io.

You can learn more about fly.io and tigris, we will need to create an account on both platforms for this project regardless. Anyway with the theory out of the way let's get started in the next section as we create our accounts and start building the app.

Fly.io is a platform that helps you run your apps and databases closer to your users all around the world. It takes your app code, packages it up neatly, and puts it on virtual machines that can be quickly started or stopped. This makes your app faster for users and more reliable. Fly.io is easy to use, works well for small projects or personal apps. It's a great way to make sure your app runs smoothly for people no matter where they are.

In this post, we'll start from scratch, running FerretDB locally via Docker, trying out the connection with mongosh and the MongoDB Node.js client, and finally deploy FerretDB to Fly.io for a production ready set up.

2- fly.io

Fly is a cloud platform that focuses on global edge computing. Fly specializes in high-performance hosting and provides a global network of edge locations. Fly is known for its scalability and performance optimizations.

But videototextai.com is built using NextJS + Firebase auth + Firestore and a backend deployed at fly.io . Fly makes it really easy to deploy docker containers and that is IMO the fastest way to develop, you can setup a local setup

Alternatives explored: * northflank: While running the wrk test, requests were taking 3-7 seconds. Couldn't repeat Heroku's phenomenon of "400ms-800ms" during such a load test. * fly.io: Reliability: It’s Not Great * render.com: I remember the time when indiehackers.com was down because of an outage on Render, not sure if it's worth trusting.