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layout: post title: Firebase and API date: 2017-12-11 —

firebase

Firebase is a mobile and web application development platform developed by Firebase, Inc. in 2011, then acquired by Google in 2014. Firebase gives you functionality like analytics, databases, messaging and crash reporting so you can move quickly and focus on your users. Firebase is built on Google infrastructure and scales automatically, for even the largest apps. Firebase products work great individually but share data and insights, so they work even better together.

Using the html historty API

API is the part of HTML essentially allows you to replace the current location with an arbitrary url. APi is fairly sraight forward revolving mostly avoid the history. Push states function for example can take three arguments data objects, a title and the new url.

Context change

When using the browser’s native add event listener , the context is changed from the local one to the target html element .