Congrats on the launch. Are there plans for SDKs in various languages or is this going to be JS only for now?
Why I ask is that I like the simplicity of Firebase as a back-end and attempted to use Google Auth for a desktop app (in C++). It was a pain to setup and still doesn’t work well.
It would save us a great deal of dev effort if there was a layer which could talk to Google and handle this for me.
P.S. The part about trusting a ‘startup’ with auth tokens may be worth addressing in some way on your website.
We've had a handful of requests for native app support, so it's definitely something we'd like to do eventually, although we're more likely to start with Electron since it will be easier to port from our existing SDK.
That's good feedback on addressing the trust issue head-on, we'll work on that.
Maybe anecdata here but I read this post, had a need for your service, and moved on because it wasn't native. You may not be getting requests because people like me won't even bother looking past the fact it's JavaScript and will either roll our own or stick with the cloud vendors C++ SDKs.
If you do go native, please expose it through a C API and not C++ or Rust.
Why I ask is that I like the simplicity of Firebase as a back-end and attempted to use Google Auth for a desktop app (in C++). It was a pain to setup and still doesn’t work well.
It would save us a great deal of dev effort if there was a layer which could talk to Google and handle this for me.
P.S. The part about trusting a ‘startup’ with auth tokens may be worth addressing in some way on your website.