Firebase ships auth, database, file storage, serverless functions, and hosting in one SDK. This course covers all five services with real project examples — from sign-in to Firestore queries to deployed Cloud Functions.
This is a text-first course that links out to the best supporting material on the internet instead of trying to replace it. The goal is to make this the best course on firebase and backend development you can find — even without producing a single minute of custom video.
This course is built by people who ship production firebase systems for a living. It reflects how things actually work on real projects — not how the documentation describes them.
Every day has working code snippets you can paste into your editor and run right now. The emphasis is on understanding what each line does, not memorizing syntax.
Instead of shooting videos that go stale in six months, Precision AI Academy links to the definitive open-source implementations, official documentation, and the best conference talks on the topic.
Each day is designed to finish in about an hour of focused reading plus hands-on work. You can do the whole course over a week of lunch breaks. No calendar commitment, no live classes, no quizzes.
Each day stands alone. Read them in order for the full picture, or jump straight to the day that answers the question you have today.
Project setup, SDK configuration, and implementing email/password, Google OAuth, and anonymous auth. Security rules that lock down access to authenticated users.
Collections and documents, real-time listeners, compound queries, and the Firestore security rules that enforce per-user data isolation.
Uploading files, signed URLs, download tokens, and the storage rules that restrict access by authenticated user or file metadata.
Trigger functions on Firestore writes, Auth events, and HTTP calls. Scheduled functions, callable functions, and the cold start problem.
Firebase Hosting with custom domains, SSL, and CDN caching. Google Analytics integration and the custom events that give you product telemetry.
Instead of shooting our own videos, Precision AI Academy links to the best deep-dives already on YouTube. Watch them alongside the course. All external, all free, all from builders who ship this stuff.
End-to-end Firebase app from authentication to deployment. Covers all five core services.
Writing Firestore rules that correctly protect data without locking out legitimate users.
HTTP functions, Firestore triggers, scheduled functions, and the cold start mitigation patterns.
Email/password, Google, Apple, phone, and anonymous authentication in Firebase.
The best way to understand any technology is to read the production-grade implementations that prove it works. These repositories implement patterns from every day of this course.
The JavaScript client SDK source. Reading the Firestore realtime listener implementation explains why offline support works the way it does.
The server-side SDK used in Cloud Functions. Understanding the Admin SDK is required for any Cloud Function that reads or writes Firestore.
Official Firebase sample apps for every service. The best starting point for seeing correct Firebase patterns in context.
React hooks for Firebase. Provides real-time Firestore data binding with Suspense. The best-practice pattern for Day 2 in a React app.
Firebase gives you auth, database, storage, and hosting without managing servers. This course gets your first app deployed in a weekend.
Firebase’s mobile SDKs are first-class. This course covers the web SDK patterns but all concepts apply directly to iOS and Android.
You need to ship. Firebase eliminates infrastructure choices that don’t matter at early stage. This course teaches you to use it correctly so you don’t hit scaling walls.
The 2-day in-person Precision AI Academy bootcamp covers Firebase and backend development hands-on. 5 U.S. cities. $1,490. 40 seats max. June–October 2026 (Thu–Fri).
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