Experimenting with Firebase
As I’ve hinted in a previous posts, I’ve been experimenting with Firebase. While I’m no expert, I have learned a few things that I’d like to share and document. Firebase What is Firebase? It’s a unique hosting platform that is owned by Google and runs on the Google Cloud. What’s unique about it? In overly simple terms, it’s a tool set for offering a backend as a service. You write an app (javascript, iOS or Android) and use the Firebase SDK to perform the backend tasks such as authentication and data persistance. The marketing makes the case for this to be a great platform for small applications to get off the ground and then it can continue to grow. There’re also many more features and services around A/B testing, analytics and more. ...