Firebase Tutorial

Firebase is backend platform for building web, android and IOS applications. It offers real time database, diffrent APIs, multiple authentication types and hosting platform

Prerequisites

You wilsl need some javaScript knowledge to be able to follow this tutorial. Knowledge about some backend will be useful as it helps to build concept

Firebase Tutorial

Firebase is backend platform for building web, android and IOS applications. It offers real time database, diffrent APIs, multiple authentication types and hosting platform

Prerequisites

You will need some javaScript knowledge to be able to follow this tutorial. Knowledge about some backend will be useful as it helps to build concepts about firebase.

Firebase Special features

It has a real time database. It supports JSON data and all users connected to it receive live updates after every change.

About its authentication

You can use anonymus, password and diffrent social authentications.

Hosting

It has a secure connection which allows an app to have strong servers.

Firebase Advantages

• It is simple and user friendly
• The data is real-time, which means that every change will automatically update connected clients.
• Firebase offers simple control dashboard.
• There are a number of useful services to choose.

Firebase Disadvantages

• Firebase free plan is limited to 50 Connections and 100 MB of storage.

Steps to use Firebase

1. Create Firebase Account

You can create Firebase account now

2. Create Firebase App

You can create new app from the dashboard page

3. Create basic HTML/js App

You just need to create a folder where your app will be placed. Inside that folder, we will need index.html and index.js files. We will add Firebase to the header of our app

4. Use NPM or Bower

If you want to use your existing app, you can use Firebase NPM or Bowers packages. Run one of the following command from your apps root folder

npm install firebase --save
bower install firebase

Hurray! You started using firebase!!