Where does Firebase fit in?

Question

I am a front-end developer who is familiar with HTML, CSS, JS and to a degree, AngularJS.

I've chanced upon Firebase (firebase.google.com) - and was wondering if I could, with my lack of knowledge with server-side code, use Firebase for my app.

Will I need to learn JSON for this?

Answer 1

Since Firebase offers a full JS API, there is no need to learn an additional language like PHP. You can access data there as if were stored in JavaScript objects.

It is intentionally built to made it easier for folks comfortable with client-side programming and less comfortable with server-side.