Firebase
Firebase development
Firestore, Cloud Messaging, auth and analytics, on the apps where Firebase is already the backend.
Part of backend and api developmentMy first production work was a social app on Firestore with Cloud Messaging push on both platforms: posts, follows, chat and stories. That taught me more about permissions, notification behaviour and third-party library edges than any amount of documentation would have.
I write the Android half of push in Kotlin as a native module rather than wiring it together in JavaScript, because permission requests, token registration and background message handling are the three places where the JavaScript-only approach quietly stops working.
What that covers
- Firestore data modelling and security rules
- Cloud Messaging on both platforms, including background handling
- Firebase Authentication, including on legacy codebases
- Crashlytics and Analytics wired to something someone reads
- Migration paths off Firestore when a product outgrows it
Where this has shipped
Next: Cloudflare Workers
Tell me what you are building.
A sentence about the product and where it is stuck is enough to start. I answer every mail myself, including the ones where the answer is that I am not the right person.