Using Firebase in production

Question

I was developing a food ordering app using Ionic & Firebase for a local restaurant . Having limited knowledge in any backend language , and lazy to spend time on that , I was thinking of using Firebase to store the data as it has everything that I need . I only doubt if it is a good idea to use that in production for the whole app . Expecting around 10-20 orders a day (in the beginning) , I also doubt about the space the app will eat up every day , and what plan I should subscribe to .

Thanks

Answer 1

Firebase team member here.

We have a lot of large customers who use Firebase in production.

The main metric to be aware of are the concurrent users. Basically, how many devices are connected to the app at the same time.

The free plan covers you up until 100 concurrent users. The $5 spark plan gives you a custom domain. After that you have unlimited concurrent uses but there's different metrics like data storage and bandwidth to be aware of.

For your use case I believe you would be just fine on the free plan.

Also, if you're building and Ionic app, check out our AngularFire library. It will save you a lot of time and make developing your app a lot more enjoyable.