Firebase Studio - Nothing to do with Clarion

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If you haven’t had a play around with Firebase Studio, can I suggest you put aside an hour to generate a web app, even though you might not know anything about web app development.

It seems to use Typescript, NextJS and Tailwind CSS. (No chance of it using Clarion)

I created a reasonably complex web app in less than an hour, that I had previously created over a month with Ionic Studio.

All you need to do is type in a description of what you want and off it goes. Want to change something, just tell it. It really is amazing and fun!

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I haven’t used Firebase Studio, but I’ve been using Firebase to host my PWA that I had already created. VSCode+CoPilot/roo are pretty good at helping set that up.

I am pretty sure that if you know what you’re doing then an AWS infrastructure would be less $$$, but Firebase is pretty neat. Some of the AI suggestions utilize deprecated Firebase constructs, so wading through that can be a drag. Presumably Firebase Studio would be less likely to do that :slight_smile:

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Yeah, I’m not sure why they have called this Firebase-Studio because it doesn’t appear to have much to do with Firebase?

Projects can be created without using Firebase and even downloaded and run on any suitable hosting platform. e.g. a website

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G’day, Geoff … I gave it a shot, out of curiosity.

Here’s the spec that “we” agreed upon;

Here’s the UI during development & debugging stage … it took a LONG time, and much prompting, for it to get the Edit/Update process working properly (c/w a doddle using Clarion templates).

After getting all UI and data entry processes working (including Smart Meter usage data upload via CSV), I gave up in getting the Cost Simulation process to work - as it needed a Gemini API access key (for which I lost enthusiasm in trying to understand !).

And, here are our parting salutations;

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Ha ha, that looks a lot more complex than what I tried.

The most complex app I tried was to reproduce the Clarion School app and I made a lot of progress in less than an hour. Because of all the tables involved FS asked me to do the CRUD processes in chunks. I did that for one table and the result was pretty good. I didn’t proceed beyond that because I don’t need a School app, and the Clarion design was a bit dodgy to start with.

I think the point is that we can create apps just by asking. It’s as if we’ve got a programmer sitting there with us. (And they’re writing code in languages I know absolutely nothing about!) FS will do the underlying database structures (I never got to see what these actually looked like!) and the UI, which obviously we can have input on.

And, it’s fun!

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