Firebase expands to become a unified app platform
I intend to use Firebase as at least a temporary backend while developing my app. Maybe I'll move to a real server later, but during development it's really easy to just have some place you can shoot json at. And I can always add interaction later by having some other application listen to it.<p>I don't really need the actual realtime communication stuff all that much (though it might turn out to be useful), but just a lightweight place to store json is really useful.