- Firebase Tutorial
- Firebase - Home
- Firebase - Overview
- Firebase - Environment Setup
- Firebase - Data
- Firebase - Arrays
- Firebase - Write Data
- Firebase - Write List Data
- Firebase - Write Transactional Data
- Firebase - Read Data
- Firebase - Event Types
- Firebase - Detaching Callbacks
- Firebase - Queries
- Firebase - Filtering Data
- Firebase - Best Practices
- Firebase - Email Authentication
- Firebase - Google Authentication
- Firebase - Facebook Authentication
- Firebase - Twitter Authentication
- Firebase - Github Authentication
- Anonymous Authentication
- Firebase - Offline Capabilities
- Firebase - Security
- Firebase - Deploying
- Firebase Useful Resources
- Firebase - Quick Guide
- Firebase - Useful Resources
- Firebase - Discussion
Firebase - Overview
As per official Firebase documentation −
Firebase can power your app's backend, including data storage, user authentication, static hosting, and more. Focus on creating extraordinary user experiences. We will take care of the rest. Build cross-platform native mobile and web apps with our Android, iOS, and JavaScript SDKs. You can also connect Firebase to your existing backend using our server-side libraries or our REST API.
Firebase Features
Real-time Database − Firebase supports JSON data and all users connected to it receive live updates after every change.
Authentication − We can use anonymous, password or different social authentications.
Hosting − The applications can be deployed over secured connection to Firebase servers.
Firebase Advantages
It is simple and user friendly. No need for complicated configuration.
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 Limitations
- Firebase free plan is limited to 50 Connections and 100 MB of storage.
In the next chapter, we will discuss the environment setup of Firebase.