Integrating Firebase and Ionic Framework

Last updated on September 24th, 2018 | In Google I/O17 the Firebase team made a bunch of awesome announcements, among them they released Firebase 4.0.0 which comes with a new authentication provider. You can use Firebase Authentication to sign in a user by sending an SMS message to the user’s phone. The user signs in […]

Last updated on September 24th, 2018 | A week or so ago (Yes, I get that if you read this later it won’t be a week, but bear with me) a reader asked me an interesting question, if you’ve seen my other authentication tutorials, you’ll see that right after we create or sign up a […]

Last updated on September 24th, 2018 | Last week I sent an email to my subscribers asking them if they had any questions about PWA (Progressive Web Apps) with Ionic Framework. My idea was to answer most of them in my book but seeing how so many people had the same questions. I decided to […]

Last updated on September 24th, 2018 | Taken straight from the official website: Firebase Cloud Functions is a hosted, private, and scalable Node.js environment where you can run JavaScript code. Firebase SDK for Cloud Functions integrates the Firebase platform by letting you write code that responds to events and invokes functionality exposed by other Firebase […]

Last updated on September 24th, 2018 | Have you tried to get Ionic Twitter login working with Firebase? There was a change when Firebase updated to V3 that made all the cool sign-in with pop-up and redirection stop working with Cordova apps. It sucked! But then I realized something, yeah, it sucked for us as […]

Last updated on November 1st, 2018 | Google and Facebook are the most common ways to use social login in your apps, a while back we covered Facebook login using Firebase, and today it’s time for Ionic Google authentication. We’re going to create a Google+ login for our ionic apps, and then extract some information […]

Last updated on September 24th, 2018 | Promises are a big part of JavaScript, especially when you’re building cloud-connected applications since they are often used when fetching a JSON API or doing AJAX work, I’m going to use this post to explain why. What is a Promise A promise is something that will happen between […]

Last updated on September 24th, 2018 | Are you sure the type of data you’re sending from your Ionic app is the one that’s storing in your Firebase database? It turns out that for me, it wasn’t. I was checking out a revenue tracking app I build for my wife, she organizes events, and I […]

Last updated on September 24th, 2018 | Introduction Pulling lists of data from Firebase is helpful. You can retrieve your stored data whenever you want, but what if you don’t want all of it? What happens when you want to just get some records, like only the people over 40 because you’re giving a talk […]

Last updated on September 24th, 2018 | I spent a good chunk of 2016 building an app with Ionic 2 and Firebase 3 and it was enjoyable and a great learning opportunity. Today I want to write a little less technical than usual for #TutorialThursday and dive into 5 “hacks” that will let you work […]