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Firebase Backend & Realtime Features

I build and fix Firebase backends for mobile and web apps — authentication, Firestore and Realtime Database structure, cloud functions, push notifications and security rules. Firebase powers every production app listed on this site.

Problems this solves

If more than one of these sounds familiar, this is the right page.

  • errorA Firebase bill rising much faster than your user count.
  • errorSecurity rules nobody is confident are correct.
  • errorA data structure that makes the queries you need impossible.
  • errorPush notifications that arrive unreliably.
  • errorRealtime sync that conflicts or loses writes.

How I approach it

Firebase gets products to market quickly and then bites when the data model was never designed. The usual symptoms are a bill that grows faster than the user count, security rules that allow more than anyone realises, and queries that need data restructured to work at all.

I design Firebase backends around how the app actually reads data, write security rules that are tested rather than assumed, and keep realtime features from turning into a runaway read bill.

What you get

  • checkFirestore or Realtime Database structure designed around your read patterns
  • checkAuthentication including email, phone and social providers
  • checkTested security rules, not defaults left open
  • checkCloud Functions for logic that must not run on the client
  • checkPush notifications through Firebase Cloud Messaging
  • checkOffline persistence and conflict handling
  • checkRead and write cost review with the expensive paths identified

How the work runs

The order matters — each step exists because skipping it causes a specific, predictable problem later.

  1. 01

    Read-pattern audit

    Firebase costs and performance are set by how you read, not how you write. We start by listing every query the app actually needs.

  2. 02

    Data model

    Structure collections and documents around those reads, including where denormalising is the correct trade rather than a shortcut.

  3. 03

    Auth and security rules

    Authentication providers and security rules written against the data model and tested with the emulator, so access is verified rather than assumed.

  4. 04

    Functions and notifications

    Cloud Functions for anything the client must not be trusted with, and push notification delivery wired and tested on real devices.

  5. 05

    Cost and load review

    Identify the expensive read paths, add caching and pagination where they pay off, and leave you with the monitoring to see it.

What you end up with

  • check_circleA backend that scales with users instead of against them
  • check_circleSecurity rules you can point at rather than hope about
  • check_circleRealtime features that hold up on poor connections
  • check_circleVisible, predictable Firebase costs

Stack

  • Firebase
  • Firestore
  • Realtime Database
  • Cloud Functions
  • Firebase Cloud Messaging
  • Node
  • React Native
  • Next.js

Built with this

Live products using the same stack — not mockups.

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Questions I get asked

Firestore or Realtime Database?arrow_outward

Firestore for most apps — richer queries and better scaling. Realtime Database still wins for high-frequency, small-payload updates such as live presence or cursor positions. Some apps use both, deliberately, for different data.

Why is my Firebase bill so high?arrow_outward

Almost always reads, not storage — usually a screen fetching a whole collection when it needs a page of it, a listener that never detaches, or a structure that forces the client to over-fetch and filter locally. These are findable and fixable, and the audit step exists to find them.

Can you migrate me off Firebase?arrow_outward

Yes, to Postgres with Prisma, which is the stack this site runs on. It is worth doing when your queries have outgrown what Firestore does well. It is not worth doing just because the bill is high — that is usually a data-model problem that follows you to the new database.

Are my security rules actually safe?arrow_outward

Only if they have been tested. Rules that look right frequently allow reads nobody intended, and the default state of a new project is permissive. I test rules against the emulator with cases that should pass and cases that must fail.

Start your Firebase Backend & Realtime Features project

Tell me what you're building and what's in the way. If I'm not the right person for it, I'll say so and point you somewhere better.

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