Introduction to Firebase

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Twitter: @tpryan Introduction to Firebase Terry Ryan Developer Advocate

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@tpryan What is Firebase? Hands on with Firebase Going further with Firebase 1 2 3 Agenda

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@tpryan Who are you?

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@tpryan Prereqs Introduction ● Internet connection. ● Browser ● Ability to write HTML/JS/CSS ● A text editor would help

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Twitter: @tpryan What is Firebase?

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@tpryan Firebase is a realtime backend as a service. Firebase is a realtime backend as a service.

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@tpryan What is Firebase? Realtime is... where your bus is your idea your place in a game

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@tpryan What is Firebase? Realtime is hard! Complex Transport Unreliable networks Multi Platform

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@tpryan What is Firebase? Backend is... your data when your mobile dies your data when your browser closes

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@tpryan you not having to run it. Service is.. What is Firebase?

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@tpryan ● Founded 2011 ● Acquired by Google October 2014 ● 180,000+ Developers ● 1,000,000+ concurrent connections Firebase Fast Facts What is Firebase?

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@tpryan CBS What is Firebase? ● Built a realtime chat platform for reality TV series Big Brother ● 50k concurrents at peak times, with over 27m chat message posted

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@tpryan Twitch What is Firebase? Twitch is the world's leading video platform and community for gamers, and uses Firebase to notify users when a realtime stream goes live.

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@tpryan InVision What is Firebase? Invision uses Firebase to power it’s live meeting features.

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Twitter: @tpryan Hands on with Firebase Let’s see some code already

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@tpryan Sign up at www.firebase.com

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@tpryan bit.ly/tpryan-firebase-lab

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Twitter: @tpryan Going further with Firebase Taking advantage of what Firebase can do.

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@tpryan API’s ● Android ● JVM Java Objective-C Javascript ● Browsers ● Node.js Going further with Firebase ● iOS ● OS X

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@tpryan Compatible with... Going further with Firebase

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@tpryan REST API Going further with Firebase ● Good for non client solutions ● Embedded systems ● Includes Streaming REST

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@tpryan Authentication Schemes Going further with Firebase ● Email & Password ● 3rd Party Auth ○ Google ○ Twitter ○ Facebook ○ Github ● Custom auth tokens

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Twitter: @tpryan Demo Authentication in Action

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@tpryan ● Static Content ● Fast CDN ● Custom Domains ● Command Line publishing. Hosting Going further with Firebase

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Twitter: @tpryan Conclusions Help and what not.

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@tpryan Make sure you need a realtime backend.

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@tpryan ● https://www.firebase.com ● https://www.firebase.com/docs/ ● https://www.youtube.com/firebase Helpful Links Conclusions

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Twitter: @tpryan Thank you! Thank you! terrenceryan.com/thanks All Code in presentation is licensed under Apache: https://github.com/tpryan/SharedCode/ This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic License.