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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

If you're a web developer, you will have recognized that building a secure, well balanced, and proven authentication system is a really tedious job to do even though it's just emails and passwords.

Nowadays, web applications are using social login and it's one of the most used and requested features in today's web scene. It's an easy and quick way to authenticate and login to a web application using your daily OAuth, from Facebook to Google Plus and Twitter, even GitHub if you're building a community-based application.

"OAuth or Open Authentication is an open protocol that allows secure authorization in a simple and standard method from web, mobile and desktop applications."
- OAuth community

Firebase is here to help you with secure login by providing multi-authentication methods, for example, an email/password and social...