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Firebase Tutorial for Beginners – Build a Mobile App with HTML, CSS, JavaScript

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Overview

Learn how to build a Mobile App with HTML, CSS, JavaScript and Google Firebase. Go here to try the interactive browser-version: https://scrimba.com/learn/firebase

✏️ This course was created by Rafid Hoda, a teacher at Scrimba. You can follow Rafid on Twitter here: https://twitter.com/rafidhoda

We recommend that you learn basic HTML, CSS, and JavaScript before taking this course.

💫 Links mentioned:

🔗 EpochConverter: https://www.epochconverter.com/

🔗 Meta viewport explained by Kevin Powell: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SElOdK2qTpI

🛠 Tools used:

🔗 Firebase: https://firebase.google.com/

🔗 Favicon: https://favicon.io/

🔗 Netlify: https://www.netlify.com/

🔗 Figma: https://www.figma.com/

🔗 Google Fonts: https://fonts.google.com/

⭐️ Code ⭐️

🔗 Download via Scrimba: https://scrimba.com/learn/firebase

🐱 Want to get access to the cute cat images used in this course?

→ Search for "Peach and Goma cat" on Google Image.

⭐️ Contents ⭐️

⌨️ (0:00:00) Introduction

⌨️ (0:01:57) Let's Build a Mobile App with Firebase

⌨️ (0:06:02) Setting up app skeleton

⌨️ (0:09:53) Adding CSS

⌨️ (0:14:16) Aside: Firebase Realtime Database

⌨️ (0:24:21) Adding Firebase to project

⌨️ (0:29:13) Security Rules

⌨️ (0:31:46) innerHTML to append li to ul

⌨️ (0:35:23) Refactoring

⌨️ (0:40:15) Aside: Turning an Object into an Array

⌨️ (0:44:28) Aside: Fetching database items in realtime using onValue

⌨️ (0:54:54) Updating items in realtime

⌨️ (0:57:41) For loop to render database items

⌨️ (1:00:42) Let's smash the bug

⌨️ (1:03:32) Aside: Flexbox flex-wrap

⌨️ (1:04:54) Aside: Flexbox gap

⌨️ (1:06:15) Adding CSS for li to wrap items

⌨️ (1:10:22) Getting ID of item in database

⌨️ (1:14:35) Replacing innerHTML with createElement

⌨️ (1:19:48) Aside: Removing items from Firebase

⌨️ (1:25:09) Removing an item when clicked

⌨️ (1:29:22) Only fetching items from database if snapshot exists

⌨️ (1:33:28) Adding hover styles to buttons

⌨️ (1:35:20) Aside: user-select

⌨️ (1:37:04) Aside: Setting the viewport

⌨️ (1:38:58) Making the app more mobile-friendly

⌨️ (1:40:35) Aside: Favicon

⌨️ (1:42:42) Adding favicon and phone icons

⌨️ (1:43:58) Aside: Web Application Manifest

⌨️ (1:46:39) Turning web app into "mobile" app

⌨️ (1:47:40) Personalise your app

⌨️ (1:49:10) Deploy to Netlify

⌨️ (1:51:48) Add app to home screen

⌨️ (1:53:44) Share your creation

⌨️ (1:55:32) Recap

⌨️ (1:59:16) Outro + Credits

Follow Scrimba on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/Scrimba

Follow Scrimba on Twitter: https://twitter.com/scrimba

❤️ Support for this channel comes from our friends at Scrimba – the coding platform that's reinvented interactive learning: https://scrimba.com/freecodecamp

Advantages and disadvantages

Advantages

  • Completely free, with no ads inside the lessons.
  • Project-based: you build real apps as you learn.
  • freeCodeCamp's own certifications are free and well known among developers.
  • Free, one long video that covers a topic end to end.
  • Use the chapters to jump to what you need.
  • 262,930 views, so help and notes are easy to find.
  • Completely free.
  • Self-paced: start any time.

Disadvantages

  • YouTube videos are long single recordings; you pace yourself.
  • Less theory than a university course.
  • No exercises or certificate: code along to make it stick.
  • No certificate.
  • No graded assignments or feedback.

Some points apply to every course of this kind; see how we rank.

Free

  • Free: Watch on YouTube, no account needed.
  • Certificate: None. Code or take notes along to make it stick.

freeCodeCamp is in Tier 3: good universities, respected companies, nonprofits and well-known teachers of our institution ranking (78/100). Free full courses and certifications; practical, but not university-level depth.

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