Learn the Basics and Get Started with Firebase — an App Development Platform Backed by Google
Learn the essentials of Firebase and related services with a hands-on tutorial
Firebase is an app development platform backed by Google. It’s a one-stop service for mobile and web apps and provides all kinds of services including authentication, database, storage, monitoring, notification, hosting, etc. Firebase can accelerate the development process and liberate us from the tedious and demanding authentication, database, and infrastructure management jobs and let us really focus on business-related code and data.
In this series of posts, we will introduce how to create a Firebase project, register apps, set up security rules, perform CURD operations to databases, etc. And in this first part, we will introduce the fundamentals of Firebase and set it up properly in the console so it can be accessed in the code.
Create a Firebase project
To use Firebase, the first step is to create a Firebase project, which works like a container for all Firebase apps and resources provisioned for the project.
Navigate to Firebase in your browser and click “Go to console” in the upper right corner to go to the Firebase console. Then…
