Why Flutter and Firebase in 2022?

What is Flutter?

Flutter is a modern UI toolkit for creating beautiful UI that uses the Skia engine to draw elements on the screen. Flutter is being developed and maintained by Google.

From a single code base, Flutter allows you to build apps for mobile, web, desktop (windows, macos, linux..), and embedded devices, as an example, you could see in the future, a Flutter app screen on your fridge door to control all the functionalities...

Flutter basically is a UI framework in which you write once, and run everywhere, it uses dart virtual machine to translate your code into the host hardware.

With Flutter, you have the power to customize every single pixel and with many standard widgets growing every day, you can virtually build anything with Flutter.

Unlike many other multi-platform frameworks, like react native, xamarin, ionic, etc.. flutter has the same or even better performance than it is seen in native development.

Flutter as a framework uses Dart programming language, Dart is an object-oriented statically typed language, it is new and modern and contains many cool features to ease development.

Flutter ecosystem

When you think if you should adopt a specific technology, you need to take into consideration many facts, who is behind it?, and how is the adoption in the market? how popular it is? how many starts on GitHub? ... etc.

Flutter has proven itself to stay for real, it is not just another framework that everyone likes, uses it, and then will disappear from nothing. According to the JetBrains 2021 State of Developer Ecosystem survey, the following:

• 138k Stars on GitHub
• 178k Followers on Twitter
• 60k Members on Meetup
  And it is considered the most popular cross-platform framework in the world.

Firebase Cloud, the out of the box backend and database

Firebase is in one fully managed, scalable cloud backend infrastructure with
many out-of-the-box services APIs such as:

• Cloud Firestore
• Machine Learning
• Cloud Functions
• Authentication
• Hosting
• Cloud Storage
• Crashlytics
• Performance Monitoring
• Test Lab
• App Distrubution
• Google Analytics
• In-App Messaging
• A/B Testing
• Cloud Messaging
• Remote Config
• Dynamic Links

Besides the Firebase standard services, third-party software editors can create extensions to integrate their services into Firebase. With this, the developer has a single point of integration to access virtually any service in the world, such as:

• Trigger emails
• Run payments with stripe
• Send messages with Twilio
• Translation Services
• Integrate with Elastic Search .. etc

With Firebase, you dont need to build, test, maintain, deploy and scale you backend services, Google cloud does it for you. You just use their API and you automatically have the power to deliver services to your Flutter App.

Conclusion

Flutter a multi-platform framework and Firebase all in one backend services thats ships with Dart APIs. You alone can "easily" build your next scalable [Flutter With Flutter and Firebase stack you cover pretty much any use case you can think of.=PLD46K4dpufBEMDz5UblupcWLUiS2hFBXI). Reduce costs from running your custom backend, integrate your own database and create the integration with third party services.

With Flutter and Firebase stack you cover pretty much any use case you can think of.