Firebase Overview
What is Firebase?
Mobile and Web application platform for developers
Acquired by Google in 2014
Offers many other services but we’ll be covering the basics of firebase’s real-time backend database and seeing how we can use this in our applications
Firebase benefits
Relieves developers from having to build out backend to support their apps
Real-time database
Generous free tier
Advanced features that developers can grow their applications into as their applications grow
Why Firebase?
- Firebase provides a seamless way for front-end developers to add data persistence to their front-end applications