Firebase expands to become a unified app platform
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Firebase expands to become a unified app platform
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Re: Firebase expands to become a unified app platform
#2This may be a stupid question, but: What do you use it for? Cannot everyone basically edit the client code and do whatever with your data? I've only used Firebase for prototyping.
Re: Firebase expands to become a unified app platform
#3This may be a stupid question, but: What do you use it for? Cannot everyone basically edit the client code and do whatever with your data? I've only used Firebase for prototyping.
I use Firebase in lieu of running my own NodeJS server. I can use a backend PHP web server but still provide realtime capabilities to my app users by using Firebase as a pub/sub system.
Re: Firebase expands to become a unified app platform
#4(firebase founder here) I’m thrilled to finally be able to show everyone what we’ve been working on over the last 18 months! When I said “big things are coming” in the HN comments back when our acquisition was announced, I was talking about today : )
We’re really excited about these new products. There are some big advances on the development side, with a new storage solution, integrated push messaging, remote configuration, updates to auth, etc. Perhaps more important though are the new solutions for later in your app’s lifecycle. We’ve added analytics, crash reporting, dynamic linking, and a bunch more so that we can continue to support you after you’ve built and launched your app too.
I'd suggest reading the blog post for more info: https://firebase.googleblog.com/2016/05/firebase-expands-to-...
This is the first cut of a lot of new features, and we’re eager to hear what the Hacker News community thinks. I look forward to your comments!
Re: Firebase expands to become a unified app platform
#5When will it support a count query? now to be able to count number of children I have to download all the data. Count is such an important feature for me.
Re: Firebase expands to become a unified app platform
#6This may be a stupid question, but: What do you use it for? Cannot everyone basically edit the client code and do whatever with your data? I've only used Firebase for prototyping.
Authentication is built-in. You can authenticate users and give them specific access with a JSON-like file that lives on the server. It actually works wonderfully.
Re: Firebase expands to become a unified app platform
#7This may be a stupid question, but: What do you use it for? Cannot everyone basically edit the client code and do whatever with your data? I've only used Firebase for prototyping.
The realtime database is IMO very cool and it's definitely worth it just for that, but integrated analytics and cloud notifications takes it to the next level.
Re: Firebase expands to become a unified app platform
#8(firebase founder here) I’m thrilled to finally be able to show everyone what we’ve been working on over the last 18 months! When I said “big things are coming” in the HN comments back when our acquisition was announced, I was talking about today : ) We’re really excited about these new products. There are some big advances on the development side, with a new storage solution, integrated push messaging, remote config…
Looks great! It will certainly be filling the void that Parse's departue left.
Google already offered a lot more more than other platforms (ios) in terms of analytics and this just makes that gap even bigger.
Re: Firebase expands to become a unified app platform
#9(firebase founder here) I’m thrilled to finally be able to show everyone what we’ve been working on over the last 18 months! When I said “big things are coming” in the HN comments back when our acquisition was announced, I was talking about today : ) We’re really excited about these new products. There are some big advances on the development side, with a new storage solution, integrated push messaging, remote config…
Hello there. I love Firebase. Use it every day.
The one big request I've always had was to be able to grab the client's IP address on request. Is that possible with this new Firebase and GCE integration?
I have many Firebase apps. Most of them have an intermediate server solely for this one reason.
Re: Firebase expands to become a unified app platform
#10(firebase founder here) I’m thrilled to finally be able to show everyone what we’ve been working on over the last 18 months! When I said “big things are coming” in the HN comments back when our acquisition was announced, I was talking about today : ) We’re really excited about these new products. There are some big advances on the development side, with a new storage solution, integrated push messaging, remote config…
Congratulations on the release! It'll tale a while to digest the truck-load of new stuff you've got :D