Firebase is a Backend as a Service (BaaS) that provides an advantage to mobile developers who use React Native for developing mobile applications. As a React Native developer, by using Firebase you can start building an MVP (minimum viable product), keeping the costs low and prototyping the application pretty fast. By Aman Mittal.
In this tutorial, we will learn how to get started by integrating Firebase in a React Native application. We will also create a small application from scratch with the help of Firebase & React Native to see how they work together.
The tutorial covers:
- Getting started
- Configuring a Firebase project
- Adding Firebase to a React Native project
- Adding react-navigation
- Navigating between the screens
- Creating a Database with Firebase
- Adding Data from the app to Firebase
- Fetching Items from the Database
Firebase is a platform that got acquired by Google and has a healthy and active community. Most users in this community are web and mobile developers as Firebase can help with mobile analytics, push notification, crash reporting, and out-of-the-box it also provides email as well as social authentication. Code examples and screen grabs included. You can find the complete code inside this Github repo. Good read!
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