We have spent quite a few chapters writing our own backend systems for returning information to the client. In the last few years, there has been a trend toward using third-party cloud systems. Cloud systems can help lower the costs of writing applications, because other companies provide all of the infrastructure that we need to use and take care of testing, upgrades, and so on. In this chapter, we are going to look at using cloud infrastructure from the Bing mapping team and Firebase to provide data storage.
The following topics will be covered in this chapter:
- Signing up to Bing mapping
- The implications of billable cloud features
- Signing up to Firebase
- Adding a map component
- Using map search features
- Using EventEmitter to notify parent components of child component events
- Reacting to mapping events to add and remove your own points...