Because people who know HTML and CSS don't know how to set up or manage a database locally. Even worse, they'd have no idea how to port that data onto a live production server. Firebase makes the install pretty painless. Our only dependency is Node. Right now that means even windows users can get up in running in less than a minute.
As a designer I really like the ease of systems like Jekyll, but it was a dead stop as soon as I wanted those sites to be editable by other users. This way we get the best of both systems.
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Because people who know HTML and CSS don't know how to set up or manage a database locally. Even worse, they'd have no idea how to port that data onto a live production server. Firebase makes the install pretty painless. Our only dependency is Node. Right now that means even windows users can get up in running in less than a minute.
As a designer I really like the ease of systems like Jekyll, but it was a dead stop as soon as I wanted those sites to be editable by other users. This way we get the best of both systems.