Firebase Cookbook

Firebase Cookbook: Over 70 recipes to help you create real-time web and mobile applications with Firebase

Key Features

• A Solution based approach that would help you create high-quality apps for your businesses
• Harness the power of real-time database to create apps that work on multiple platforms
• Build a customized solution for your app development challenges with Firebase

Book Description

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.

What you will learn

• Use Firebase Diverse Authentication systems
• Integrate easy, secure File Hosting using Firebase Storage services
• Make your application serverless using Firebase Cloud Functions
• Use the powerful Firebase Admin SDK for privilege management
• Use Firebase within NativeScript apps for cross-platform applications
• Modify, structure, save and serve data in and from Realtime Database
• Get acquainted with the newly introduce Cloud Firestore, a scalable database for your web and mobile applications

About the Author

Houssem Yahiaoui, a backend engineer at Xapo from Algeria, has almost 4 years, experience in building everything from backend services to mobile apps using Hybrid, Not so Hybrid and Native Approaches. Houssem is also a Telerik Developer Expert title holder and community power believer. He’s also a Google Developer Group Lead Organizer, Algeria Tech Community (Community Manager), and speaker at numerous national and international events from DevFests to DroidCon, sharing his experience of web technologies, and a love for serverless approaches and Firebase.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1. Firebase-Getting Started
Chapter 2. Firebase Real Time Database
Chapter 3. Files Management with Firebase Storage
Chapter 4. Firebase Authentication
Chapter 5. Securing Application flow with Firebase Rules
Chapter 6. Progressive Applications powered by Firebase
Chapter 7. Firebase Admin SDK
Chapter 8. Extend Firebase with Cloud Functions
Chapter 9. We’re done, let’s Deploy
Chapter 10. Integrate Firebase with NativeScript
Chapter 11. Integrate Firebase with Android/iOS Natively
Chapter 12. Hack Application’s Growth
Chapter 13. Add Analytics and Maximize Earrings