Firebase for your App?

This is from my presentation that I gave at MADMeetup on 17th June 2017.

Transcript

1. Nikhil Thakkar Consultant Firebase for your App?
2. Why Firebase?
3. Introduction • Firebase as a company founded in 2011 • Initial product was Realtime database released in April 2012 • Acquired by Google in 2014 • Since then... Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
4. What Firebase offers? Source: http://firebase.com
5. Authentication • Provides authentication from Google, Facebook, Twitter, Github, Email & password out of the box (most recently phone numbers) • Option to integrate with other OAuth providers like Instagram • Integrates tightly with other Firebase products like Realtime Database, Storage etc. • Easy integration using FirebaseUI library
6. Realtime Database • Primary product of Firebase • Cloud hosted NoSQL JSON database • Two way near-realtime sync out of the box • Mobile First strategy • Accessible from client devices
7. How to structure your data? Thumb Rules: 1. Avoid nesting data 2. Flat hierarchy 3. Duplicate data if needed 4. Match data structure to UI 5. Think scalability
8. Exercise MadMeetup Data Structure
9. How to secure your data? • Using Security Rules • Structure of rules should follow the structure of data • Types of security rules - .read, .write, .validate • Predefined Variables - now, root, data, newData, auth, $ placeholder variables • Combine these and you can have powerful data security rules that’s difficult to break into
10. Cloud Functions (Beta) • Serverless Infrastructure • Node.js runtime environment • Automatic up and down scaling • Event driven or invoked directly over HTTP/S • ENV configuration
11. Cloud Storage (Beta) • Object storage service • Uploading user generated • Strong user-based security • Automatic upscaling • Network Resiliency
12. References • http://bit.ly/2tcqD7Q - Jacob Wenger - Security Rules • http://bit.ly/2ssCthq - David East - NoSQL for SQL Devs • http://bit.ly/2tciLDA - Data Modeling • http://bit.ly/2swT4AB - Database Security Rules API • http://bit.ly/2rmPJjZ - Instagram Auth in Web • Wanna know how Firebase initializes itself even if you don’t pass Context. Check here http://bit.ly/2hi0lhf.
13. Thank You! Q/A @nikhilthakkar19