At its Google Cloud Next conference in San Francisco today, Google is announcing updates to its Firebase portfolio of mobile-oriented cloud services.

Google Cloud Functions for Firebase, now available in a beta release, allows developers to run back-end JavaScript code that responds to events triggered by Firebase features and HTTPS requests.

Build a Firebase Cloud Function that detects new image uploads and creates multiple thumbnails on the fly using Sharp and Cloud Storage.

Also new in Flutter 3 are deeper integrations with Firebase, Google’s back-end platform for building mobile and web applications.

Second half of Algolia Full Text Search with Angular 4 and Firebase Cloud Functions. In this video we create a cloud function to keep a searchable index updated with the realtime database.

Firebase aims to help developers build collaborative mobile and web apps through an API storing and syncing data in real-time.

Firebase added a series of emulation, dashboard, testing and extension updates to its mobile platform at Google I/O 2021.