Wanna know which is the best choice to develop a chat application Firebase or XMPP?
Any suggestion would be grateful.
I know you are looking for suggestions between the to but being as this is posted on an elixir forum I would be remiss not to say that Elixir itself would be perfect for a live chat application. Coupled with Phoenix pushing live data down over websockets has never been easier. All you need is a standard DB like postgres to store data for historical purposes. Depending on how important this information is you can even keep it in memory state via a genserver per “chat room”.
Anyways as for your original two choices. I enjoyed using firebase when I needed it and was doing most of my work in nodejs, although I switched that over to only elixir once learning about this language haha.
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