Supercharge Your Web App with the New Firebase

Discover how to rapidly build and deploy a web-based game using Firebase in this 31-minute conference talk by Bret McGowen at Devoxx. Learn about Firebase's powerful features, including real-time database syncing, user authentication, and file storage. Explore the newest version's capabilities, such as integrating with other cloud services and serverless architecture. Follow along as McGowen live codes a functional game, demonstrating Firebase Database, offline support, chat functionality, UI implementation, Firebase Storage for file uploads, Cloud Messaging, and authentication. Gain insights into skipping tedious plumbing tasks and focusing on creating unique web applications. By the end of the talk, understand how to leverage Firebase to streamline development and launch a web app quickly and efficiently.

Introduction
Firebase overview
Firebase Database
Offline support
Syncing with the database
Chat functionality
Adding UI
Firebase Storage
File Upload
Cloud Messaging
Authentication