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.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.