alt Hacker NewsAre you saying that because you fundamentally just don’t believe the db is a good place for auth, or because these low-code frameworks tend to roll it in and as such you see a lot of low quality implementations of auth from these systems simply because using them is within reach of someone who has no idea what they are doing?
To me it’s important to make this disambiguation. One take says that auth in db itself is a problem. The other take says “auth in db is a symptom of low code garbage”
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I like to separate concerns. Unix philosophy and all that. That was the primary concern on my mind when writing my comment above.
I think the feature is there not necessarily because it’s the best technical idea but instead because of its ability to pull in less educated developers. That makes sense financially because there are fewer people out there with a higher degree of expertise. But from my perspective it shows that it’s not meant for me.
FWIW firebase auth and firebase DB are two separate things, and you can use them completely separately. However "Firebase" is a PaaS so I see how it gets confusing.