Introduction to Firebase and TasteBite apps

Getting started with Firebase is really simple; that is the main reason many startups and growing products use all these Backend as a Service platforms like Firebase. We will quickly start by creating a TasteBite application with Firebase and Ionic. In this application we integrated an AngularFire2 wrapper for Angular applications using Firebase, although, we can simply use the Javascript SDK also inside our application. You need to create an account at Firebase (initially you can have a free account; as your consumption increases you can upgrade your account easily).

Firebase has made the life of developers easier as they don't have to spend time building backend server to build simple APIs. We ...

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