Exploring Firebase plugins
In this section, we will look at one of the most common sets of plugins that are used by Flutter app developers and explain how they can be used within your apps. Firebase is a Google product that provides multiple technologies for multiple platforms. If you are a mobile or web developer, you may be familiar with this amazing platform.
Among its offered technologies, the important ones are listed here:
- Realtime Database: A NoSQL (non-relational) database on the cloud. With this, you can store and access data in real time.
- Cloud Firestore: A NoSQL database, with a focus on big and scalable applications, that provides more advanced query support compared to a real-time database.
- Cloud Functions: These are coded functions that are triggered by an activity that may come from another Firebase product, including the previous ones, or the user (using the software development kit (SDK)). We can develop scripts to react to changes in a database...