3. Authentication & Databases

📄️ Getting Started with Firestore

Overview:

📄️ Firestore with Real-Time Updates

If you'd like to incorporate some real-time functionality into your application - where you want to update the interface in real-time without having the user refresh the page or click a button, you can use the real-time features from Firestore.

📄️ Deploying NextJS to Firebase

You can take your NextJS application and deploy it to Firebase IF you are not making use of any of the pages/api routes or features.

📄️ Securing your data

tl;dr Don't store passwords, social security numbers, financial info, health information, or identifying info of children < 13 years old. Some people tend to steal it, and other people tend to get upset when when this is made public.

📄️ Deploying NextJS to Vercel

If you are making use of other NextJS features and/or you are not using other parts of the Firebase Suite - then you can deploy your application to Vercel.

📄️ Monitoring your app

We've used a number of different services to build, test, deploy your application. Sometimes you can do it all in your frontend application. Sometimes you need to send data back and forth to your backend. Sometimes you'll be using a third-party backend.