The Ultimate Beginners Guide to Firebase Today we’re going back to the basics in Firebase by building a basic web app from scratch. Even though this is beginner level, I think it’s very useful to write code with Firebase using nothing but plain JS, especially if you’re used to developing with a framework library like AngularFire , ReactFire , or Vuefire . In addition, I want give you my Why Firebase? opinion and explain why it’s my goto cloud provider. What is Firebase? Firebase is a Backend-as-a-Service, which really boils down two things - (1) A container for Google Cloud Platform resources, and (2) a collection of SDKs to interact with these resources from the web, iOS, Android, Unity, and more. Why Firebase? Why not AWS or Heroku? Firebase does not compensate me to say nice things, I am just a happy customer :) In my opinion, Firebase offers the quickest path to get your app in the hands of users . It accomplishes this by simp...