Come join the Firebase Slack community

David East Developer Advocate Do you love Slack? We do too. We’re happy to introduce the new Firebase Slack community to discuss all things Firebase!Slack has been a great tool for community members to help one another. The Angular and iOS Slack communities have grown to over...

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Introducing Firecasts - A YouTube series of Firebase Screencasts

David East Developer Advocate Get ready for a whole new series of screencasts. Today we're excited to announce the launch of our new YouTube series, Firecasts! Firecasts is a hands on YouTube series for Firebase developers. Tune in each week and learn how to build realtime apps...

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Firebase - Almost 1.5 years with Google

James Tamplin Product Manager You've likely already heard that Parse will be shutting down. It brings us no joy in seeing them close their doors. While Parse was a competitor, they were also a part of the developer tools community and ecosystem. We were both working towards a...

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Angular 1.5.0 - ennoblement-facilitation has been released!

We have just released the next major version of Angular 1, which has been in development since May last year.The primary theme for this release was to improve the upgrade path to Angular 2.In this release we have added features that will enable developers to write Angular 1 applications that are closer to the way that applications are structured in Angular 2.New FeaturesThe big feature changes to...

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Angular 2 templates: Will it parse?

As part of the beta release, we eliminated the requirement for kebab-case in Angular templates and replaced them with case-sensitive names for attributes. This makes it easier for you to write Angular 2 templates that are consistent with naming conventions used in directives.For example, where you would previously write:  <my-widget (some-event)="someAction()" [some-property]="expression"...

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Test your skills at the Static Showdown

Michael Bleigh Engineer The third annual Static Showdown hackathon is coming February 20-21, 2016 -- and this year it's presented by Firebase!What is it?The Static Showdown is a worldwide virtual competition where teams of up to four have 48 hours to build a web app with one...

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