This Week in #Firebase: Community and Official Resources

It's been a little while since I did a "This Week in Firebase" post, and I'm hoping to go back to doing a regular posting of some of the cool stuff in the Firebase community that's been on my reading list. If you have any articles, open source projects, apps, books or anything that you've contributed to that you'd like me to highlight, please get in touch using the comments below!

Here's some of the great stuff that I've discovered this week:

Women TechMakers (@WomenTechMakers) announced a travel grant to the Firebase Dev Summit. We greatly welcome women in technology, and I can personally attest that some of the finest people I have worked with, and continue to work with are women. We need more of you in our industry. Please come to the summit if you can!

Community Roundup:

• An AMAZING episode of ‘Experts on Air’ with a number of African developers recapping Google Developer Days Europe: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NFksmOyutX8.
• The folks at Coding Cafe continue their series on building a Firebase Chat App. Now up to episode 46! Or start from the beginning with their playlist.
• Dan Denney @dandenney shares his experience in building a small PWA with Preact and Firebase. Great stuff.
• @hitherejoe put together a nice piece on medium about Remote Config. He also has an eBook ‘Exploring Firebase’ coming soon. I want a review copy!
• Jorge Cajas (@cajasmota) ran a workshop on Cloud Functions for Firebase. Resources are here (in Spanish), including using the nodeemailer to send emails from a function.
• Miguel Beltran (@miqubel) has a great article on ‘Mastering Firebase Notifications’ which, as well as providing great info on Firebase Cloud Messaging, also has an awesome banner image.
• TVAC Studio’s tutorials continue with a really cool video on Firebase Authentication. Check it out.
• A great article from @s_eschweiler on Cloud Functions for Firebase.
• A really nice series from Raja Yogan (@rajayogan14k) on Tphangout.com on building a Chat app with Ionic 3 and Firebase. Now up to episode 15!
• I really love this piece from Tarik Huber (@TarikHuber) on Organizing your Cloud Functions for Firebase code.
• A really nice article on using Firebase Storage with PDF files from Belal Khan.
• A react-native bridge for Firebase Cloud Messaging.

Official Channels:

• All the Codelabs from Google Developer Days 2017: https://codelabs.developers.google.com/gdd17.
• David East put out videos on Measuring Angular Universal Page Load performance, and server side rendering with Firebase hosting.
• MeetFirebase met with the amazing Kat Fang tech lead on Cloud Storage for Firebase.