Thanks Josh! Of course I'm using many other services other than Firebase. But Firebase even on 2026, I feel it still does what is suppose to do well. It does have many gaps tho, but tons of small projects or for beginners where it's really easy to get started with Firebase.

And surprisingly, there are still many large scale mobile app and webapps that's running on Firebase. For most of them, the local development without costing them, depends on this local emulators suite.

Compare to the alternatives like Supabase, where the team are really focused on giving best dev exps, for some reason Firebase local development has been the same for a long time.

I personally thought, giving that best dev exps locally for Firebase, could give devs a fresh of breath air for maintaining or developing new projects faster.