In this post, we have prepared a curated top list of reading recommendations for beginners and experienced. This hand-picked list of the best Firebase books and tutorials can help fill your brain this March and ensure you’re getting smarter. We have also mentioned the brief introduction of each book based on the relevant Amazon or Reddit descriptions.
- Progressive Web Apps with React: Create lightning fast web apps with native power using React and Firebase (2017)
- Vue.js 2 and Bootstrap 4 Web Development: Build Responsive SPAs with Bootstrap 4, Vue.js 2, and Firebase (2017)
- Beginning Angular with Typescript (updated to Angular 5) (2017)
- Firebase Essentials – Android Edition: Second Edition (2017)
- The Definitive Guide to Firebase: Build Android Apps on Google’s Mobile Platform (2017)
- Build Mobile Apps with Ionic 2 and Firebase: Hybrid Mobile App Development (2017)
- Beginning React (2017)
- Firebase Cookbook (2017)
- Firebase Jumpstart (2017)
- Firebase Essentials – Android Edition (2017)
- Beginning Ionic Mobile Development (2017)
- Beginning Angular 2 with Typescript (2017)
Progressive Web Apps with React: Create lightning fast web apps with native power using React and Firebase (2017)
For years, the speed and power of web apps has lagged behind native applications. Progressive Web Apps (PWAs) aim to solve this by bridging the gap between the web apps and native apps, delivering a host of exciting features. Simultaneously, React is fast becoming the go-to solution for building modern web UIs, combining ease of development with performance and capability.
Author(s): Scott Domes
Vue.js 2 and Bootstrap 4 Web Development: Build Responsive SPAs with Bootstrap 4, Vue.js 2, and Firebase (2017)
Learn how to combine Bootstrap with Vue.js to build responsive web applications. This book is for JavaScript programmers who are new to web frameworks and want to start learning it by developing interactive and responsive web applications. In this book, we will build a full stack web application right from scratch up to its deployment.
Author(s): Olga Filipova
Beginning Angular with Typescript (updated to Angular 5) (2017)
Angular is one of the leading frameworks to develop apps across all platforms. Reuse your code and build fast and high performing apps for any platform be it web, mobile web, native mobile and native desktop. You use small manageable components to build a large powerful app. No more wasting time hunting for DOM nodes!
Author(s): Greg Lim
Firebase Essentials – Android Edition: Second Edition (2017)
With 55 in-depth chapters, over 470 pages and 23 example app projects (including the source code), Firebase Essentials – Android Edition provides everything you need to successfully integrate Firebase cloud features into your Android apps. This book covers the key features of Android app development using Firebase including integration with Android Studio, User Authentication (including email, Twitter, Facebook and phone number sign-in), Realtime Database, Cloud Storage
Author(s): Neil Smyth
The Definitive Guide to Firebase: Build Android Apps on Google’s Mobile Platform (2017)
Plan how to build a better app, grow it into a business, and earn money from your hard work using Firebase. In this book, Laurence Moroney, Staff Developer Advocate at Google, takes you through each of the 15 Firebase technologies, showing you how to use them with concrete examples.
Author(s): Laurence Moroney
Build Mobile Apps with Ionic 2 and Firebase: Hybrid Mobile App Development (2017)
Learn to build hybrid mobile apps using Ionic and Firebase. You’ll build a Hacker News client app, which can view top stories in Hacker News, view comments of a story, add stories to favorites, etc. This introductory guide covers the whole cycle of hybrid mobile apps development. It’s organized around implementing different user stories.
Author(s): Fu Cheng
Beginning React (2017)
Developed by Facebook, React is one of the leading frameworks to build efficient web user interfaces. You use small manageable components to build large-sale, data-driven websites without page reloads. No more wasting time hunting for DOM nodes! In this book, we take you on a fun, hands-on and pragmatic journey to master React from a web development point of view. You’ll start building React apps within minutes. Every section is written in a bite-sized manner and straight to the point
Author(s): Greg Lim
Firebase Cookbook (2017)
Do you feel tired just thinking or even hearing about backend technologies, authentication or the tedious task of deployment? Firebase is here to change the way you develop and make your app a first-class citizen of the cloud. This books takes a solution based approach by providing you recipes that would help you understand the features of Firebase and implement them in your existing web or mobile applications.
Author(s): Houssem Yahiaoui
Firebase Jumpstart (2017)
This book is aimed at developers that want to get a practical understanding of the Firebase Realtime Database. If you are trying to find an introduction to the Firebase and AngularFire ecosystem and would like a quick introduction to JSON Data Stores, Firebase Data Modeling, and the Firebase SDK, then this book is for you. Sit down in one evening with this book (this Jumpstart is condensed to 36 pages), and learn some of the key aspects of both JSON Data Stores in general and Firebase, in particular, in one read.
Author(s): Angular University
Firebase Essentials – Android Edition (2017)
With 55 in-depth chapters, over 470 pages and 23 example app projects (including the source code), Firebase Essentials – Android Edition provides everything you need to successfully integrate Firebase cloud features into your Android apps.
Author(s): Neil Smyth
Beginning Ionic Mobile Development (2017)
Ionic is one of the leading frameworks to develop mobile apps and Progressive Web Apps in HTML5. Ionic is especially useful if you are familiar with web development HTML, CSS, JavaScript and would like to build mobile apps, but don’t fancy having to learn Objective C and/or Swift for iOS, Java for Android, etc.
Author(s): Greg Lim
Beginning Angular 2 with Typescript (2017)
Angular 2 is one of the leading frameworks to develop apps across all platforms. Reuse your code and build fast and high performing apps for any platform be it web, mobile web, native mobile and native desktop. You use small manageable components to build a large powerful app. No more wasting time hunting for DOM nodes! In this book, we take you on a fun, hands-on and pragmatic journey to master Angular 2 from a web development point of view.
Author(s): Greg Lim
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Best Firebase Books to Read
We highly recommend you to buy all paper or e-books in a legal way, for example, on Amazon. But sometimes it might be a need to dig deeper beyond the shiny book cover. Before making a purchase, you can visit resources like Library Genesis and download some Firebase books mentioned below at your own risk. Once again, we do not host any illegal or copyrighted files, but simply give our visitors a choice and hope they will make a wise decision.
Beginning React and Firebase: Create Four Beginner-Friendly Projects Using React and Firebase
Author(s): Nabendu Biswas
ID: 3144036, Publisher: Apress, Year: 2021, Size: 7 Mb, Format: pdf
Fundamentals of Android App Development: Android Development for Beginners to Learn Android Technology, SQLite, Firebase and Unity (English Edition)
Author(s): Sujit Kumar Mishra
ID: 3078460, Publisher: BPB Publications, Year: 2020, Size: 1 Mb, Format: pdf
The Road to React with Firebase: Your journey to master advanced React for business web applications
Author(s): Robin Wieruch
ID: 2955010, Publisher: , Year: 2019, Size: 1 Mb, Format: pdf
Please note that this booklist is not absolute. Some books are truly hot items according to The Wall Street Journal, others are composed by unknown writers. On top of that, you can always find additional tutorials and courses on Coursera, Udemy or edX, for example. Are there any other relevant resources you could recommend? Leave a comment if you have any feedback on the list.