This week, MITxPro introduced us to serverless services with Firebase. This platform was developed by Google and provides developers the ability to create mobile and web applications with services. It gives developers tools that they often would have to build themselves like fire storage, databases, authentication, and many more.
For example, in today’s challenge, I was tasked to add Google Authentication to a login form. The template code was provided for me but I had to add a popup that provided the user an option to create and account and login using their Google account. If you’ve ever set up authentication for an application, you know how difficult this task can be.
Well, Firebase made this so easy! I had to troubleshoot a few things and learned a bunch about how to work with Firebase’s interface. Once I got it set up, it worked like a charm.
I really enjoyed this activity and I look forward to using Firebase in the future. If you would like to see my code, visit my GitHub repository here!
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