From the course: Building Production-Ready React Apps: Setup to Deployment with Firebase

Introduction to the Firebase Google console

From the course: Building Production-Ready React Apps: Setup to Deployment with Firebase

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Introduction to the Firebase Google console

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- [Sandy] Firebase is a set of products and managed services in the cloud, like NoSQL databases to store and synchronize data across your applications, and other services like authentications providers in order to create and manage user's accounts in your applications. So Firebase was first created in 2011. Then it was acquired by Google in 2014. So the Google team offers a nice documentations and guide in order to get started easily with the Firebase SDK. So there are a few requirements in order to get started with Firebase. So first, you should have a Google account in order to connect and then access the Google console. And if you already have one, so that's fine, you should be able to get right into it. So you should visit this website, and then connect with your Gmail account just like me. And so there are a few services that we're going to discover provided by Firebase, so first, Cloud Firestore in order to create a new SQL database and store in synchronized data in your application. You also have the cloud storage in order to create a bucket and download media, and create rich visual content. Then you're going to be able to allow users to connect to your applications with Firebase authentication. So there are different sign-in methods provided available. And finally, you're going to have also Firebase Hosting to deploy your applications to the cloud. So it's time for us to get started with the Firebase Cloud solutions. I'm going to walk you through the different steps in order to get started with Firebase.

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