Implementation Lamentation

Now that the site is in its most basic working state, I’m not super satisfied with the implementation. I initially intended on keeping everything “within” firebase, from database to storage to hosting and functions. However it seems firebase has poor support for static rebuilds and updates to their hosting, something I need to investigate further.

Currently we use Netlify for hosting, allowing us to use a firebase function to request site rebuilds (requiring an authenticated user of course). While it works, I’m not fully satisfied with the disjointed operation, even if it does work fine for now.

Other pursuits would be figuring out a function or switching to github actions CI, which is the same as Netlify honest—-just with more manual work.