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Firebase is proprietary #4

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The Firebase backend is proprietary so you can't run your own instance of the full stack.
At this stage, I would not trust myself with running a secure & reliable backend, so using Firebase is better for Mathdown end-users.

OTOH, there is little need to change anything about Firebase and being able to develop as a purely client-side code makes forking and testing much easier - a user can try any fork without exporting/importing user data.
"Running" a fork is as simple as loading the static HTML from anywhere - local checkout, github pages, cloud9 workspace etc.

Any free solution should preserve the ability to fork and use without migrating data.


Best free-backend alternatives to Firepad:

For other firebase-like functionality (if we add any), meteor.com looks most similar in spirit, and even provides free hosting for server-side part of the app (arbitrary node.js?).

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