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5. Using Firebase Hosting

Laurence Moroney
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Seattle, Washington, USA
 
Firebase Hosting is designed to provide fast, globally cached and secure hosting for your web app. It’s used for web sites that host static files – such as HTML, JavaScript, CSS, and more. This gives you the ability to build and host a progressive web app with the likes of Angular.
It works natively with SSL, so you don’t need to handle registering certificates in order to get an HTTPS connection. Content in Firebase hosting is edge-cached on solid state devices at a variety of Content Delivery networks around the world, giving your users a fast connection wherever ...

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