Web Rush

Episode 26: Firebase with Katerina Skroumpelou

Episode Summary

Katerina Skroumpelou is our guest and we're talking about Google Firebase. What is Firebase? Why did Katerina decide to use it initially? What problems does Firebase solve? And more!

Episode Notes

Recording date: 2019-03-05

John Papa @John_Papa

Ward Bell @WardBell

Dan Wahlin @DanWahlin

Katerina Skroumpelou @Psybercity

Resources:

Peacock VS Code extension
Firebase
Ionic https://ionicframework.com/
Angular https://angular.io/
NoSQL https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NoSQL
Firestore https://firebase.google.com/docs/firestore/
Transactions in firebase https://firebase.google.com/docs/reference/android/com/google/firebase/database/Transaction
Database security https://firebase.google.com/docs/database/security
Firebase Authentication https://firebase.google.com/docs/auth/
React and firebase https://css-tricks.com/intro-firebase-react/
Vue firebase https://vuejs.org/v2/examples/firebase.html*

Someone to follow

Timejumps

02:13 Guest intro
04:06 What is Firebase?
08:25 What stood out to you with Firebase?
09:49 What kind of database is Firebase?
10:37 Firebase vs Firestore
14:11 Sponsor: nrwl
14:42 Who's hosting the magic?
17:48 How aware of transaction boundaries do you need to be?
20:39 What problems was Firebase solving?
27:11 Sponsor: DevIntersection
28:05 Firebase and security API keys
33:25 Can you use it with plain javascript, react, or vue?
34:14 Someone to follow