Firebase is a Google-backed database optimized for synchronizing data to the cloud. It's a key player in the rush for distributed databases.

In acquiring Firebase, Google also hopes to raise the profile of its cloud computing services---at least in a small way.

Firebase will still handle the data, and your servers can tap into this central repository in much the same way clients do. The service's primary aim is to simplify application development.

A brief introduction to Firebase - a powerful platform to enable the rapid development of web enabled apps. Includes a basic authentication tutorial.

Google has added a dozen new products to Firebase, its backend services platform for iOS, Android, and web apps.

As far as this tool vs. VS Code is concerned, Firebase Studio gets the win because of the agentic AI and the prototyping tool, which makes it exponentially easier to create, debug, and deploy. On top ...

With this update, Google is turning Firebase into a unified app platform for its now 470,000 developers on the service (up from 110,000 when it acquired Firebase).

Firebase Genkit is an open source framework, using the Apache 2.0 license, that enables developers to quickly build AI into new and existing applications.