Let's face it: developers tend to be lazy, so they always look for ways to build solid and maintainable software with the least possible effort. The good news is that Flutter and Firebase work well together so you can to build full-stack apps in record time, and this is what we'll be covering in this chapter.
The app we'll build in this project is an event app. Your user will be able to see the program of an event— for example, a developers' conference, a concert, or a business meeting—and, once authenticated, they will be able to select their favorite parts of the schedule. All the data will be saved remotely, in a Cloud Firestore database.
The following topics will be covered in this chapter:
- Creating a Firebase project
- Adding Firebase and Firestore to your app
- Reading data from a Firestore database and showing it in your Flutter app
- Implementing an authentication screen and connecting it to Firebase
- Writing data to a Firestore database (create, read, update, delete (CRUD))