Building an E-commerce Application Utilizing Firebase Cloud service

Abstract

The primary purpose of the thesis is to illustrate the way of establishing a serverless backend for the application by utilizing Firebase services. Besides, the thesis also investigated the implementation and functioning of Firebase as well as its services. The thesis is to establish a conceptual framework of Firebase services via an examination of Firebase documents and the implementation of a project utilizing Firebase services and tools. Additionally, this research demonstrates how to create Firebase project in the Firebase interface and how to integrate Firebase SDKs into the application. The thesis project culminates in the creation of an e-commerce application prototype. The application’s objective is to enable individuals to purchase and sell things related to their own demands. The E-commerce website exists as a practical tool in order to help firms handle orders, receive payments and manage logistics. All key aspects of the working prototype application, in general, were successfully implemented, apart from a few that were excluded for different causes. Applying serverless backend service such as Firebase brings a huge benefit to people, especially developers, in terms of the significant reduction of maintenance of the traditional backend.