Hacker Noon 2.0 Dev Update 2: Electric Boogaloo
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Photo by José Miguel on UnsplashFor the past few months, I’ve been hacking away on Hacker Noon 2.0. In that time, I’ve encountered a wide array of technical challenges, gotchas, tricks, and treats. Today, I’d like to share some of that with you, our community.Let’s start with some of our #architecture: we started by using #firebase on the backend, and #react on the frontend. As discussed at our Github event at the beginning of March, we quickly discovered that Firebase costs would get out of hand. Long story short, we decided to go with a hybrid system, one that uses a CDN (content delivery network) to serve high-traffic pages like the homepage, story pages, and so on, and a fully-powered Firebase app will serve pages like the story editor, the editor dashboard, the admin dashboard, etc. This (...)