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Firebase Cookbook

By : Houssem Yahiaoui
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Firebase Cookbook

By: Houssem Yahiaoui

Overview of this book

Do you feel tired just thinking or even hearing about backend technologies, authentication or the tedious task of deployment? Firebase is here to change the way you develop and make your app a first-class citizen of the cloud. This books takes a solution based approach by providing you recipes that would help you understand the features of Firebase and implement them in your existing web or mobile applications. We start-off by creating our first Firebase application and integrating its services into different platforms and environments for mobile as well as web applications. Then we deep dive into Real-time Database and Firebase Storage that allows your users to access data across various devices with realtive ease. With each chapter you will gradually create the building blocks of your application from securing your data with Firebase Rules to authenticating your users with O-Auth. Moving along we would explore modern application development techniques such as creating serverless applications with Firebase Cloud Functions or turning your traditional applications into progressive apps with Service workers. Finally you will learn how to create cross-platform mobile apps, integrate Firebase in native platforms, and learn how to monetize your mobile applications using Admob for Android and iOS.
Table of Contents (15 chapters)
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Firebase Cloud FireStore

Firebase Cloud FireStore

Over the past 6 years, Firebase's products evolved and with Google integration, Firebase powered by Google simply became more powerful than it had been before. Such power meant some limitations on current products, for instance, the beloved Realtime Database that hypothetically knew some scalability. Developers, a lot of times, found it confusing as to how they should use it to simply store data.

Firebase Cloud FireStore, powered by Google's powerful database infrastructure, provided a solution by providing scalability, flexibility, and data management. Here are its main power points and, its differences from the earlier model:

  1. Compared to the old Realtime Database, when it comes to the look and feel of data schemas, Cloud FireStore is more organized and structured than the old model. This difference facilitates the way developers think and...