--- title: Divshot has joined Firebase! | daily.dev description: Front-end hosting service Divshot has joined Firebase, with the two companies merging efforts on developer experience. Firebase launches a new command-line... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/divshot-has-joined-firebase--tax6b98t1 twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Divshot has joined Firebase! | daily.dev og:description: Front-end hosting service Divshot has joined Firebase, with the two companies merging efforts on developer experience. Firebase launches a new command-line... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/divshot-has-joined-firebase--tax6b98t1 og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/TAX6B98T1.png og:image:alt: Divshot has joined Firebase! og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Divshot has joined Firebase! **[Firebase](https://daily.dev/sources/firebase-blog)** · 2 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Front-end hosting service Divshot has joined Firebase, with the two companies merging efforts on developer experience. Firebase launches a new command-line interface featuring a local static web server built on Divshot's open-source Superstatic library, enabling local development with rewrites, redirects, and other Hosting options. Divshot will shut down its own products on December 14, 2015, and a migration guide is provided to help existing customers transition to Firebase Hosting. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Questions this post answers ### What happened to Divshot after it was acquired by Firebase? Divshot joined Firebase and shut down its existing products and services on Monday, December 14, 2015. Firebase provided a migration guide to help existing Divshot customers transition to Firebase Hosting, and incorporated Divshot's open-source Superstatic library into a new Firebase command-line interface for local static web server development. _Anyone tracking hosting provider shutdowns and migrations can follow similar changes on daily.dev._ ### What is Superstatic and how is it used in Firebase? Superstatic is Divshot's open-source local static web server library that Firebase incorporated into its new command-line interface, released alongside the Divshot acquisition. It lets developers run rewrites, redirects, and other Firebase Hosting configuration options locally during development, matching production hosting behavior before deploying. _Developers evaluating static hosting tooling can keep up with CLI updates like this on daily.dev._ --- Tags: [#cli](https://daily.dev/tags/cli), [#firebase](https://daily.dev/tags/firebase), [#acquisition](https://daily.dev/tags/acquisition) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/divshot-has-joined-firebase--tax6b98t1) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"TechArticle","headline":"Divshot has joined Firebase!","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/divshot-has-joined-firebase--tax6b98t1","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/divshot-has-joined-firebase--tax6b98t1"},"datePublished":"2026-08-23T12:18:21.840Z","dateModified":"2026-08-23T12:32:46.119Z","description":"Front-end hosting service Divshot has joined Firebase, with the two companies merging efforts on developer experience. 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