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Questions about Firebase and MySQL in a mobile app

I'm fairly new to programming and I'm studying App development with Ionic and using Laravel as a backend. So far I have created a simple system with sign up and login of users and creation of "events" by the users. I have made the relation between the users and events as the app will need to know which user created an event, and the participants of such event.

Now, I was wondering about adding a messaging system between users and obviously push notifications and stuff and came across Firebase. I've read about it before, but haven't really used it so I'm not quite familiar with it.

My question is, is it possible or even recommended that I use both MySQL and Firebase in my app or should I just stick to one? I've read about Websockets if I stick with Laravel, but on the other hand, Firebase also handles user login and registration in case I want to move to Firebase completely. I'm having some technical questions, such as:

I have researched about use cases similar to mine and couldn't find anything, if you guys have come across such situation, could you recommend any materials? It would be much appreciated!

Thanks a lot everyone! I hope my questions were clear, if you need more details, please let me know!

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Answers (1)

rs7
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If you decide to use Firebase, it comes with a built-in authentication system so you wouldn't need a MySQL database or your own server.

If you decide to use both anyways (if you have a good reason to do so), you would have to handle all the logic for copying the authenticated user id over to firebase (and validating access) on your own server. If you don't need to do that just keep it simple: Firebase or your own server + MySQL.

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