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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

Introduction 

The Firebase Realtime Database is a developer's most used product within the whole stack of the products available with Firebase. It offers dynamic, extensible functions, and almost all Realtime data insertions, updation, and deletion.

What makes Firebase Realtime Database an attractive feature among other Firebase products in the stack is its built-in broadcast functionality and an extremely simple to use API. These APIs provide the developers with an opportunity to exploit the APIs on a greater scale no matter which ecosystem and environment they are using. Besides, the Firebase Realtime Database comes with offline support. This feature simply kicks in when the app is in a not-so-reliable network state. Within this chapter, we're going through its different usages and will talk about the different use cases that will add more real-time look and...