What Is Firebase?
The traditional way to build web and mobile apps is by having a front end and a back end. The front end is what is built using tools like Flutter, platform-specific native SDKs, React or HTML and it’s run on a the users’ client device, whereas the back end is ran on a server and is built with tools like PHP, Spring or Node.js.
Firebase aims to replace most of the features run on server-side software with their own services that connect directly to apps using Google’s own API instead of using standard HTTP requests. Apps built using Firebase are usually simpler to set up and less complicated to maintain. There is a free plan (called Spark) that allows a limited number of connections and only offers limited storage and computing, ...
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