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JoeSchr

what does it better then using Google app engine? how is it different? or did I not understand what it is?

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Savas Vedova

Very good point.

As far as I know, deploying an SPA app with Google App Engine is pretty straightforward. However, some of the things I've noticed:

  1. As soon as you want to add server side rendering to your static websites things become more complicated - unless you'd like to use frameworks like gatsby. But even in this case if you have dynamic content like latest blog entries or latest products you can't use a framework like this.
  2. You have to manage/setup your own CI/CD.
  3. Handling different environments is more tricky, like setting up staging and production environments.

Finally, GAE is universal. You can host a lot of different applications while here the focus is only web applications. Right now, it's in alpha stage with minimal features. I am trying to gather as much feedback as possible and iterate over the software based on this input.

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JoeSchr

good points, but also I used it with python & flask for dynamic websites with db access, seemed pretty straightforward to me