GitHub Pages VS Firebase

GitHub Pages

GitHub Pages is a static site hosting service that is designed to host your personal, organization, or project pages directly from a GitHub repository. With GitHub Pages, you can create a simple website by committing HTML, CSS, and JavaScript files to a repository on GitHub, and GitHub will automatically serve the website from a URL that is based on your GitHub username or the name of your repository.

GitHub Pages is a quick and easy way to create a simple, static website, and it is especially useful for hosting documentation, project pages, and other types of websites that do not require a dynamic back-end. You can also use GitHub Pages to host websites that are generated by static site generators, such as Jekyll, and you can customize the look and feel of your website by creating a custom theme.


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Firebase

Firebase is a mobile and web application development platform developed by Google. It offers a number of services for developing and managing mobile and web applications, including a real-time database, user authentication, hosting, and analytics. Firebase provides developers with a number of tools and APIs for building and managing applications, including a cloud-based NoSQL database, user authentication, and hosting.

You can use Firebase to build and deploy a variety of different types of applications, including mobile apps, web apps, and real-time collaboration apps.

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  • GitHub Pages
    • directly host static webpages off of a GitHub repository
    • enables the use of custom domains
    • free
    • integrates version control on GitHub as well as other GitHub capabilities
    • Suitable for modest projects without server-side coding or straightforward static web pages
    • Since GitHub Pages does not contain a build step, building the site before deployment is required
  • Firebase
    • Global CDN-based hosting
    • Firebase Authentication is integrated support for authentication and authorisation
    • Firebase CLI and Firebase Hosting are used for deployment and hosting respectively, with built-in support for continuous integration and deployment
    • features a free tier and fees for more usage and storage
    • connects to more Firebase products, including Firestore, Cloud Functions, and Hosting
    • More suitable for online and mobile applications that need authentication and authorization features, as well as applications that require hosting or real-time databases

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FrameWork GitHub Pages Firebase
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Infrastructure
N/A
Google Cloud (GCP)
Continuous deployment
Automated builds from Git
Need to use additional CI/CD service
Instant rollbacks to any version
Site previews for every push
Compatible with all Static Site Generators
Works best with Jekyll
Notifications
Team Management
Custom domains
Automatic HTTPS
Rewrites & Redirects
Password Protection
Websites
Unlimited
Unlimited
Build Minutes
N/A
N/A
Concurrent builds
N/A
N/A
Bandwidth
100GB /month
360 MB /day
Team Members
N/A
Unlimited
Build Time Per Deployment
N/A
N/A
Build Memory Limit (in MiB)
N/A
N/A
Max team members before switch to custom pricing
Unlimited
Unlimited
Git contributors have to be Team Members
Serverless Functions (API)
JavaScript
Edge Functions
Background Functions
CRON Jobs
Schedule functions
CLI
firebase-tools
Extensions
Firebase Extensions
Environment Variables
Build Logs
N/A
Build Canceling
N/A
Analytics
Integration with Google Analytics
Authentication
Firebase Authentication
Database
Firestore & Realtime
Asset Optimizations
A/B Testing
Form Handling
Data Storage
Git LFS
Push Notifications
Machine Learning
Two-factor authentication
Team Logs
SOC2
N/A
ISO27001
N/A
GDPR
Carbon Neutral
Carbon-free Energy
Renewable energy by 2025

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The Jamstack ecosystem is rapidly evolving, and with it -- we're witnessing a wider usage of static site generators, which are certainly a big part of the Jamstack technology.

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