Firebase : The best tool for developers

In this blog, I will tell you guys about firebase and why I love it.

Firebase is a type of Google backend service developed in 2011 and made public in April of 2012. Basically it is a collection of computing and developmental tools that are used by developers in all types of platforms for creating their apps, grow their user base and earn profit etc. 

Firebase is built on Google's infrastructure and is a type of NoSQL database program which means data isn't stored in bars and columns and instead in JSON-like documents which are more organized. Today, all the big customer related websites require a back end server and other types of features such as storing users data, checking and logging the user managing user's data, strong security and all of that server side stuff. Well firebase manages all of these problems for you in you app. You can easily include these features from firebase into your mobile or web app without any difficulty.

With firebase, you can systematically manage your server. In the past creating and managing the server was very distruse, you would have to use complex programming syntax. So as an alternative, firebase was introduced.

Originally firebase was created in Envolve by James Templon and Andrew Lee. It was purchased and maintained by google from 2014. Today it is used by millions of developers for creating their projects.

Firebase is prominent because of the variety of backend services and developmental tools it provides. These features of firebase include

1. Real time database

With some code that joins our app with firebase, we can store the users input in firebase. The data is saved even if we refresh the page. So we can develop lots of projects like chat apps, todo list, etc if we can store the data. Firebase sends you new data as soon as it’s updated. When your client saves a change to the data, all connected clients receive the updated data almost instantly. The data is quite secure in firebase, we can easily see and manage our data as firebase stores data in the form of documents.

2  Authentication

Authentication means to verify and validate the user account. In authentication, the user creates an account and signs it. Authentication is needed in every
website to keep track of user account. Firebase supports authentication using passwords, phone numbers, Google, Facebook, Twitter, etc. All we have to do is copy and paste the code provided by the firebase. The code will accept the users email , password and input and we can store the data in our website. We can manage, delete and observe the users accounts of our website in our firebase project.

3 Hosting

Hosting is the act of putting your app in the world wide web for users all over the internet to access the app. Firebase provides fast hosting for a web app and you can also name your own domain. However, the end always has '.web.app'. This is all for free. Firebase hosts your website in such a way that you can deploy straight to Firebase for production use.

4 File storage

Using firebase we can directly save files from our computer into our app. This is very important for websites that require user to upload files and folders from the ir computers. The file information is also available. Videos, images, sound files, etc can be saved in firebase storage.

5 Cloud functions

In every website, we need to write a set of rules for security and management purposes. So firebase introduced cloud functions. In cloud functions, we can make certain protocols and norms for our app which if violated by any user, will be applied. Suppose you have a chat app and you want to ban users that swear. You can use cloud functions to tell firebase that if any user writes the set of words, prevent them from creating and posting messages.

These were some of the main features in firebase that I have fallen in love with. Firebase makes it just so much easier to create apps and is very trust-worthy. I fully encourage you guys to use firebase. I have used firebase for about a year and I am loving it. There are other types of features as well such as notifications. You can send different types of alert messages and notifications to  your users without any cost in firebase. Firebase analytics analyzes your website s performance and optimizes it.

I can go on and on complementing how firebase is such a great tool that every developer must know about. Be sure to check out firebase because trust me , it's is going to be very useful to you.