Firebase
Firebase is a mobile and web development platform owned by Google. Firebase includes a web API so you can add authentication, analytics, a database, and more to a web application. Firebase can be used as the backend of a modern web application, allowing developers to focus on user experience. It includes a free tier that we will use for the following exercise.
Exercise 14.04: Getting Started with Firebase
In this exercise, we'll set up a database and authentication using Firebase. We'll need to register a free account. We'll also get the required payload that we'll need to complete an activity using Firebase later in this chapter:
Note
The code files for this exercise can be found here: https://packt.link/bNMr5.
- Firebase requires a Google account, but using it doesn't require a credit card or any payment. To get started, navigate to https://firebase.google.com/ and click
Get started
.You should find yourself at the Firebase...