Nowadays Google Firebase is my most favorite application. This is offering great web solutions like hosting, authentication, storage and database in a simple way. This article explains how to upload images(supports video) into Firebase storage with Ionic and Angular applications. This covers the user authentication part to protect storage uploads and improving default Firebase security rules. Take a look at the quick demo and try to upload under 1 mb JPEG or PNG.

Ionic is a great component framework that can build both iOS and Android apps from the same source code using Capacitor. In this video I have explained how to generate a signed Android release APK version using Ionic application and publishing on Google play store. For this process you need a Google play console subscription that costs $25 for life time. Please try to download the 9lessons demo Android app for testing.

Google cloud platform is a cloud computing service and a perfect alternate for Amazon Webservices. Nowadays most of the top companies are moving towards Google services for better results. Google cloud platform is offering a $300 free trial for one year. This post is about how to set up VM instances with firewall rules in addition to creating a XAMPP server with Ubuntu operation system. This is almost similar to my previous article about the Amazon EC2 setup. Try this and enrich your side projects.

There are a number of advantages to implementing social login in your web applications. First of all, it best secures the user credentials, the user can use a single login for accessing multiple sites, this can automatically access the user details for further use, and many such. This article is about how to implement the social login with Facebook and Google using Angular and RESTful API. This social login helps to store social data of the logged in user into the database, so that it provides you valid user data like email, name, and others. Let’s see how this works, follow the live demo and code below.