At its Google Cloud Next conference in San Francisco today, Google is announcing updates to its Firebase portfolio of mobile-oriented cloud services.

Google Cloud Functions for Firebase, now available in a beta release, allows developers to run back-end JavaScript code that responds to events triggered by Firebase features and HTTPS requests.

Build a Firebase Cloud Function that detects new image uploads and creates multiple thumbnails on the fly using Sharp and Cloud Storage.

Firebase aims to help developers build collaborative mobile and web apps through an API storing and syncing data in real-time.

Second half of Algolia Full Text Search with Angular 4 and Firebase Cloud Functions. In this video we create a cloud function to keep a searchable index updated with the realtime database.