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I'm debating between GAE standard or Firebase now for my next project :/ I've always been confortable with nodejs but didn't want to bother with GCP (GAE flex). One part that I liked about Firebase is how it's easy to support multiple login providers (twitter,fb...etc). Is there something similar in GAE standard nodejs ?

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(PM on the team) These are not incompatible, you can use Firebase authentication with App Engine. Get started at https://firebase.google.com/docs/auth/. The firebase Authentication Admin SDK has a Node.js client library that is compatible with App Engine (https://firebase.google.com/docs/auth/admin/).

I don't quite understand how GAE would affect using Firebase or not. Even on standard you would still use Firebase Auth, there is no GAE specific authentication.

There actually is some gae specific authentication

https://cloud.google.com/appengine/docs/standard/python/conf...

But it has nowhere near the features of Firebase Auth.

Firebase doesn't support Access Management with a limit to one project. So if you generate login:ci token it'll create token with access to all your projects and there are no other ways to manage it. I don't know why it still not implemented. Be careful.

We use Firebase (and Firebase Functions :fire:) for most of our stuff. Then have a few things running on App Engine. What are you building? I'm a big fan of firebase if it makes sense for what you are building!

Firebase user here. Played with GAE in the past and now running all the backend code in functions.

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