Firebase is a Backend-as-a-Service — BaaS — that started as a YC11 startup and grew up into a next-generation app-development platform on Google Cloud Platform.
I’ve been using Firebase since 2013. I was late to the game :)
Make sure you know how to connect to Firebase and run basic read/write operations before continuing. This earlier How to…
I’ve been using Firebase exclusively for the last two years. Yeah yeah, I’ve got an elasticsearch cluster, and Redis caches some of my data, but Firebase is my one source of truth.
JavaScript Promises are a prerequisite for productivity with the Firebase JavaScript SDK. Firebase does support callbacks, but Promises are so much cleaner…
This is the third installment of my Firebase Data Structures series. Go catch up on pagination and complex data structures for the background you may need to understand this. Once you’re ready, let’s talk security rules!
One of the most popular questions that I hear is how to implement a server for a Firebase app. Firebase provides great client-side tooling, but what about server…
I recently ran across an old blog post by Michael Bleigh of DivShot fame and a current Firebase team member. In the post Michael describes my favorite Firebase architecture and gives it a name: