I am so upset by my recent experience, that I am hoping to find some like minded people that are having similar experiences. I have been building site with Wordpress for years, because I am not a hard core programmer. Thought I would take firebase for a test spin. First I built a small website Next JS site with Firebase, and was able to get that on to Vercel through my GitHub. I was like, ok, ok, maybe this could work, spent weeks working on a more complex site, going back and fourth trying to get it built. Probably would take less time just doing it all on Wordpress myself, but we are trying different things. Then here is punch in the face, I go to post the site on Vercel, and there is error after error, add, commit, push, over and over and over again, hours and hours, Firebase can never figure out how to fix the problem, time after time, try after try. More and more hours goes by, maybe I am like 5 hours deep at this point, then I think to myself, hey it is hosted here, this is google, this has to be publishable on Google cloud, nope, error after error, that can’t be fixed. Finally how I was able to fix it, and I am just getting more knowledge on getting it working is, I did a git clone on my Cursor, and had the AI there go through the project, and figure out what is going on. I just lost so much time, over the simplest thing, just uploading. They have to really take a hard look at this, and do something about it, because people are going to be like me and get stuck in a situation. At least create the environment that is the basis of what firebase is building for you to be compatible with other stuff out there too, at least have it sync up with their own system!
Hi @Brayden_Bugazzi - sorry to hear about the challenges you are running into with Firebase Studio.
Were the errors related entirely to deployment, or were the errors related to your app’s functionality?
Cheers,
Kirupa
Functionality, but in firebase it worked perfectly
Oh. The app worked well in Firebase Studio. When you deployed it live, it stopped working?
I can relate to that. There is a lot of work to be done to ensure Studio works well with other Firebase services. Gemini is the tragically behind Firebase developments. Case in point: I wanted to use Firebase AI logic service. Pro 2.5 had a very vague idea what is that so i had to add links to documentation in airules.md. Funnily enough, Gemini managed to create a sensible solution with a 3rd party API without any major input from my end.
This could, and should, be Studio’s killer feature - the flawless integration with not only other Firebase but all Google Cloud services, especially for less technical folks like me. We are far away from that so I am looking forward to improvements.
I never was able to deploy, every time would give a wide array of errors preventing the deployment. What baffled my mind, is only in Firebase it works. It couldn’t even get deployed to Google Cloud, that should be a shoe in, if your app works in Firebase, you should 100 percent be able to flip it over to Google cloud with no issues. Then it, and Gemini, couldn’t for the life of them figure out what to do.
