Getting Started With Google Firebase

Firebase is a backend platform (can be thought of as a backend as a service — baas) for building Web, Android and IOS applications (Multi Platform). It offers a real time no SQL database, different APIs, multiple authentication types and a hosting platform.

So, Firebase can power our app’s backend, including data storage, user authentication, static hosting, and more. With firebase we can Build cross-platform native mobile and web apps with firebase Android, iOS, and JavaScript SDKs. We can also connect Firebase with existing backend using server-side libraries or via the firebase REST API.

Allright, lets creatae a simple web application to understand and experiment these concepts:

Goto https://firebase.google.com/ while in your google account. Click “Get Started”:

In the next page you would see all the existing firebase projects of yours. Then in there click “Add project” or “Create a project” (if you are doing this for the first time). Enter necessary values and finally you would see something like below which contains config and SDK details of your firebase project.

Firebase configs

After you create a firebase project from the firebase console, you can get the firebase config details from the project setting section there. It would look like…