Why are programmers choosing Firebase BaaS?

Firebase started out as a real-time, cloud-hosted, NoSQL database system which was originally built and launched in 2011 by Andree Lee and James Tamplin.

Some features of Firebase

With Firebase, one can easily build complete and flexible applications that have high support for collaboration.

• Firebase-based applications allow secure, direct access to the database using the codes from the client-side.

• While offline, changes made by the user on their device are retained and automatically synchronized with the remote database. The local device is also updated with changes in the database all in real-time. If there are any conflicts, they are merged automatically.

• There is a provision by the Firebase service called the Firebase Realtime Database Security Rules. This is an expression-based rules language which is very flexible. It is used by builders to structure their application’s data, i.e., how it can be read from or written to. With Firebase Authentication, you can also define who can access the data and how it can be accessed as well.

• The real-time database that Firebase provides is a NoSQL database, which makes it very different from relational databases. These differences are particularly clear when it comes to how the database is optimized and the functions it can perform.

To use this database more efficiently, it helps to thoroughly understand how users of the application are going to access the data.

Reasons to choose the Firebase BaaS platform

Below are seven reasons why Firebase can be considered by developers for their mobile and web applications.

1. Hosting that is fast and secure

With Firebase, you can host a diverse variety of content ranging from APIs, dynamic and static contents, HMTL, CSS, and microservices.

You do not need any configuration to use the free SSL service that is provided by Firebase. The hosting is SSD and CDN backed, which makes the content delivery very fast.

2.Google Analytics

Google analytics is a free service provided by Google but when integrated with Firebase applications, it is very helpful. With Google analytics, you can monitor your site and see how users are reacting towards it. This will assist you in planning proper customer retention and engagement campaigns. With Google analytics on Firebase, you can enjoy metrics tracking with over 50 Google partners.

3. Firebase testing services

Improving the quality of your application will be a breeze with the multiple testing services provided by Firebase. Some of these services include:

• Firebase Crashlytics: This is a tool to troubleshoot your application on real-time bases to identify and track scaling and versioning problems which can reduce your apps value.

• Test labs: With this testing product, you can emulate a physical environment virtually in order to test your application in real time. Results from this test can come in interactive forms like videos and screenshots.

• Performance monitoring: A Firebase product that enables you to monitor your application and get suggestions on possible improvements.

4. App indexing API

Firebase applications have been proven to be favorable and have improved online ranking, which is caused by their tie with top search engines like Google.

With this app indexing tool, Firebase applications have high search rankings and improve what content users get based on what they want.

5. Firebase machine learning ability

The Firebase Machine Learning Kit will make use of APIs that are dedicated to scanning barcodes, recognizing text, labeling pictures, and detecting faces.

There is an API base on the cloud made available by the Firebase ML that will work and harness the power of Google Cloud Machine Learning Tech. This collaboration makes the Firebase ML even better.

6. Multiple platform authentication

This Firebase service is free and lets developers authenticate users with so many different platforms. You, as a Firebase developer, are provided with easy-to-integrate SDKs, UI libraries, and services from the backend to enable you to easily integrate user verification functionality in your application.

The authentication SDK has support for iOS, C++, Android, Web, and Unity setups and can perform email, phone number, custom, temporary autonomous verification of user.

7. An extensive and reliable database

The Firebase database allows for scaling where you can easily create instances of your database. It also has two database types that have unique abilities.

• Realtime database: This allows data processing when the user is offline to be cached to the device memory until the user is online again to start synching. This real-time database also integrates authentication from Firebase and is highly protective of users’ security. This database will store constantly-accessed data of your application.

• Cloud Firestore: This provides support for Google cloud and will make it very easy for developers to transmit and save data for front and backend development. There is also offline support by this database and it is best used for data that does not require real-time access.