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2. Deploying to Firebase as the Back End

Majid Hajian1 
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Oslo, Norway
 

Firebase is considered a Backend as a Service, which is now part of the Google Cloud Platform while it’s still serving as an independent entity. It offers different services such as hosting, real-time databases, and cloud functions.

In this chapter, I am going to show you how we can deploy our app to Firebase. It’s important to mention that Firebase is not the only option. However, since it’s easy to set up and deploy, I encourage you to use Firebase as our host server.

Additionally, we may need to write a bit of back-end logic for our application; therefore, Firebase Function ...

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