These are notes from a talk by Ryan Christie titled “Light up the Web! An Intro to Building Apps with Firebase and Angular” during the HighEdWeb 2015. Illinois State University

http://webisthebest.illinoisstate.edu/light-up-the-web/presentation/

What is Firebase?

• NoSQL
• No need for a backend (Firebase is a service)
• No problems
• Everything is stored in it’s own document
• Useful for real time data
• Flat data structure
• Easy startup
• Everything stored in JSON
• Built-in API
• Data editing UI

How do you make a great choice?

• Forget technology, what are you trying to accomplish?
• Don’t solve problems or make decisions with only the information you already know.
• The web changes fast. Learn to change with it.

How to store location data

• What I knew: edit static JSON file, SQL Data base
• Aware of: NoSQL, MongoDB, Redis
• What I discovered: Firebase

How will people edit the data?

• What I knew: JSON, AJAX and jQuery, CodeIgniter, Angular
• What I was aware of: Ember, Backbone, Laravel
• What I discovered: AngularFire

Peace
– KS
Web Developer at Benedictine University near Chicago