Getting full-scale applications up and running fast and bug-free is surprisingly hard. First, you have to provision your server, then your database, then your UI, and then you've to make sure all components integrate with each other correctly (which is the hardest part). This gets even harder when you want to introduce more advanced functionality, such as authentication, notifications, real-time updates, and encryption.

The Firebase platform solves this pain point by giving us all this out of the box:

• The Realtime Database is a tool to store and manage an applications persistent data as well as notify us when anything changes.
• Firebase hosting allows us to move all our frontend static assets to the cloud so that they can be delivered to users across the globe with speed and security.
• Performance monitoring and analytics give us in-depth information about our users and their interaction with our application.
• Firebase provides much more than this, which is outside the scope of our application, such as cloud lambda functions (serverless code execution), authentication, cloud storage APIs, and even notifications for mobile apps.