Chapter 4. Deploying to Firebase Hosting

Unlike Heroku, Amazon, or Google, Firebase has only been a major name in Platforms as a Service (PaaS) since 2013 and has only been offering hosting as a service since May 13, 2014. Age aside, the promise of hosting your application source code and static assets in the same environment as your real-time backend has created a lot of interest around Firebase. The Firebase team is 17 people strong, located at San Francisco, California and was recently purchased by Google in October, 2014. They have built a secure, reliable, and scalable service that syncs any application's data across clients in real time. While many applications offer the same syncing experience to their users via a custom API, these APIs are typically to some degree coupled with the applications they serve (custom methods, and so on.). Firebase disrupts this notion by allowing developers to create an API for their application in minutes that is in no way coupled with...