Firebase is an excellent platform, but it's not a good option for Parse migration. Migrating to Firebase users must to rewrite the backend(using firebase) and rewrite the front end to connect to a new API. Additionally, you must learn how to use a new platform. Another BaaS solutions(Parse hosting) allow you to migrate without those hassles. Disclaimer: I'm a https://www.back4app.com/ co-founder, the first Parse hosting mover.

Announced at Google I/O 2016, this new version of Firebase can be the complete alternative to Parse! It has now unlimited free analytics, crash reports, push notifications and much more. The pricing for hosting is also much more appropriate. And the best part, everything is realtime! Worth checking! Google announcement: : https://firebase.googleblog.com/...

Will it support react native? Firebase 3.0 is currently not working with react native. Deprecated 2.4 works.

Well, I'm sold. Gonna migrate my Parse apps to this :) p.s. any migration guides available for those of us *still* on Parse?

So this is clearly a Parse alternative, right ? Also, can developper be sure that the service won't suddenly shut down for no reason ?

Please check out my product and leave feedback!!!!: https://www.producthunt.com/tech... Firebase is a mobile platform that helps you quickly develop high-quality apps, grow your user base, and earn more money. Firebase is made up of complementary features that you can mix-and-match to fit your needs. Implementing Firebase is quick and easy. With intuitive APIs packaged into a single SDK, you can focus on solving your customers' problems and not waste time building complex infrastructure. Firebase Analytics is the free and unlimited analytics solution built directly into Firebase. Gain insight into your users from ad click to app usage. Firebase Analytics works with other Firebase features, so you can take action on everything from click-through rates to app crashes. Deliver cross-platform apps with APIs packaged into single SDKs for iOS, Android, JavaScript and C++. Expand to a different platform without modifying your infrastructure. Most Firebase features are free forever, for any scale. Our four paid features have a generous free tier and two paid plans once you begin to grow. When your app is a breakout hit, you don't have to worry about scaling your server code or provisioning extra capacity — Firebase handles that for you.

Excited to see this is for iOS too!

I'm so happy that they added storage. That's all I needed.

😳: "In addition, Dynamic Links work across app installs: if a user opens a Dynamic Link and doesn't have your app installed, the user can be prompted to install it; then, after installation, your app starts and can access the link." How is that even possible considering Apple doesn't provide any such info on app install? Through some sort of IP/header matching heuristic? Is there a possibility of incorrect matches using this feature? https://firebase.google.com/docs...

Check out the Google blog announcement: Firebase expands to become a unified app platform from Product Manager (and co-founder) @JamesTamplin

It would be so awesome to see a visual, interactive database browser like the one that the out-going Parse offers. It made browsing and search for data really intuitive, and lowered the hurdle significantly when I was developing my first app and had to figure out a back end. The fact that data looks "just like Excel" was a big help.

Firebase Developer Expert here and GoogleIO attendee. For all who are nervous about a similar Parse situation, fear not Google has literally incorporated Firebase to almost all the demos and talks at IO. They're very serious about Firebase!

Does the new version of Firebase support an infrastructure that contains graph database like Neo4j?

I've been always passively looking for a Parse alternative, but never gave a fair shot to Firebase. I think now is the high time to give this a spin. Just one doubt thou, Does Firebase provide a completely support for React Native like Parse?

I think the analytics positioning is interesting; previously google analytics was a catchall but it now looks like firebase analytics is being setup to compete more directly with mixpanel and amplitude etc with event driven focus and ability to send notification and cross this with crash reporting in one place

Will be a great compliment to @Fabric

Loving all the new features. Any plan on bringing some of the native only features (especially analytics) to JS + Hybrid Apps?

This is really interesting. This might be the future of app development.

Ever since Parse announced their plans to close, i've been researching alternatives to Parse. While Parse was good, I did find it quite slow (loading data to and from the app... don't blame my code 😄 Can anyone confirm if Firebase is faster?

I tried firebase out a while back. Very cool tool.