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I've used Firestore in the past, and would not use it unless you absolutely require the scale out.

You trade these things to get scale out:

- SQL joins and queries regardless of your schema.

- Enforcing public interfaces for reads/writes.

- Zero latency for admin operations.

- Global transactions.

- Auth logic written directly in your language, running where your data is.

The trade is not worth it if you do not use the scale out feature of Firestore.

I would just go with HTTP/websockets, typed language, SQLite and a single VM until you prove you need to scale out.

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