So I have been researching this for quite sometime. After reviewing the documentation and watching YouTube videos I still have had a hard time understanding how this process goes.
I am building a mobile application that will run on iOS and Android. I need to develop a backend for this application and have decided to use Node.JS , and potentially Python for a portion of it, and to host it on the Google Cloud Platform. How would I get this setup? I've gone through the Cloud Endpoints documentation but I am so confused. What I'm trying to do is have it set up so that I can develop locally, and deploy it to a test backend, and then migrate my work to a production backend once I have verified it is working in both dev/test environments.
That being said, I think my question is how would I go about simply just setting up a NodeJS mobile backend on Google Cloud?
The Cloud Endpoints Frameworks doesn’t support Node.js, only Python 2.7 and Java 8.
This is what the Endpoints Frameworks does:
Like other web frameworks, Endpoints Frameworks handles the low-level communication details of HTTP requests and responses for your application. When a client sends a request to your API, Endpoints Frameworks routes the request's URL to the function or method in your code that processes the request. Endpoints Frameworks converts the return value to JSON and sends the response. You add metadata (by using annotations in Java and decorators in Python) to your source code. The metadata defines the surface of the REST APIs for your application.
So, all you need to do is to create a service with App Engine standard with Java or Python
If you still want to use Node.js for your backend, here you can see other options you can use