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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

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Post by larrykubin »

mayop100 wrote: post #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 config…

Thanks so much, I love your product and am developing on it right now. When Parse got shut down, I got a bit nervous, but the Firebase updates give me reassurance that it is here to stay.

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Post by jkscm »

mayop100 wrote: post #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 config…

will user be able to opt out of tracking? Like Do-Not-Track

Re: Firebase expands to become a unified app platform

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Post by bwship »

We've been using the Firebase platform for a while now. It's pretty cool to see them expand from 3 products to ~15 overnight. I'm most excited about their analytics and crash reporting. I must say that their system has been one of the best we have used in a longtime, I am really excited to see other aspects like analytics and ads being housed under this same umbrella, as I think it is going to help with development time overall. One area that I'd like to see improved though is a deeper querying language for database, or even better would be a way to automatically export the system in realtime to a postgres database for better SQL type analytics.

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Post by robotnoises »

mayop100 wrote: post #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 config…

New dashboard look & feel is awesome. Lots to digest from that short keynote, but I'm excited to see Google double-down on its investment (Hi, Facebook).

Looks like https://console.firebase.google.com is getting slammed. All of my attempted imports are failing.

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Post by WalterSear »

I'm in talks with a company regarding building an application for users in developing countries, where Android 2.0 is still the dominant OS version.

Firebase 2.0 looks like a great fit for their needs otherwise, but is the new sdk backward compatible to Android 2.0?

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Post by welanes »

maaaats wrote: post #2

This 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 it for its main selling point: a realtime backend.

With Firebase, Vue-Fire (Firebase bindings for Vue.js), crossfilter and chart.js, you can whip up a functional and sweet analytics dashboard or [insert pet project here] in a weekend.

It gets the headache of a backend (and user auth) out of the way.

As for security - the Firebase security rules and server side authentication allow you to lock things down.

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Post by mybigsword »

way too risky to use it for startups. Google may discontinue this project at any time and you have to spend months to rewrite everything for another database. IF google open source it and we will be able to install it on premise and patch without Google, that would be ok. So, I would recommend to use PostgreSQL instead.

Re: Firebase expands to become a unified app platform

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Post by atom-morgan »

plexicle wrote: post #6
maaaats wrote: post #2

This 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.

So if someone were switching from Mongo/Mongoose to Firebase, what's the biggest difference?
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