Google Cloud Functions vs Cloud Functions for Firebase
April 26, 2019and Cloud Functions for Firebase client SDK
Google Cloud Functions
https://cloud.google.com/functions/
- This is the primary serverless product on Google Cloud Platform
- Currently support Node.js, Python and Go Runtime
- Support event by Cloud Pub/Sub, Cloud Storage, Stackdriver logging, Firebase, Direct HTTP, etc.
Cloud Functions for Firebase
https://firebase.google.com/docs/functions/
- This is like a wrapper around
Google Cloud Functions
, with more seamless support/intergration withFirebase
- All
Cloud Functions
listed inGoogle Cloud Platform Console
shall appear inFirebase Console
as well - Support event by Firestore, Realtime Database, Remote Config, Firebase Authentication, Google Analytics for Firebase, Crashlytics, Cloud Storage, Cloud Pub/Sub, HTTP, etc.
- Seems to support JavaScript and TypeScript only.
Cloud Functions for Firebase client SDK
https://firebase.google.com/docs/functions/callable
- Let you call functions directly from a Firebase app (so you don’t have to write http call/retrofit code)
- Supported client: iOS, Web, Android, C++, Unity
- Officially, you should call
Cloud Functions for Firebase
. But, you can make Google Cloud Functions compatible for Firebase.
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