Firebase is a backend as a service that allows realtime data syncing across clients. Developers can integrate Firebase with Python apps by using the Firebase REST API or server-sent events directly from Python. The document demonstrates how to build a simple chat client in Python that writes and reads data from Firebase in realtime. Code examples and resources for integrating Python and Firebase are provided.

1. Python Integration with Firebase

2. What is Firebase
• A powerful API to store and sync data in
realtime.
• BAAS (Backend as a services)
• Combination of
– Datastore
– Tools to get realtime updates for changes
• Gives the ability to create Apps without
setting up backend

3. How does it work
• Developers install firebase by including a library
in their applications.
• This library provides a data structure that is
automatically synchronised between all clients
and with firebase servers.
• If one client changes a piece of data, every other
client observing the same piece of data will be
updated as well within milliseconds.

4. Schematic of connecting to Firebase

5. Firebase Integrations available
• Firebase has support for the web, iOS, OS X,
and Android clients.
• In addition, it has a Node.js and a Java library
designed for server-side use.
• A REST API is provided which allows any other
type of apps to connect with Firebase

6. Firebase Data Structure

7. Python - Firebase
• Leverage the REST API implementation – Use
Python-Firebase a Python Wrapper over REST
API
• Use Server Sent Event (SSE) streams
• A complete example at
https://github.com/firebase/EventSource-
Examples

8. Develop a simple chat client
• Demo + Workshop
• Write data to Firebase
• Read data from Firebase
• Simple Chat Client

9. Resources
• Code Repo - https://github.com/mayuresh/python-
firebase-demo
• Simple write to Firebase – firebase-write.py
• Simple read from Firebase – firebase-read.py
• Chat functionality – chat_client.py
• Integrating with JS UI Demo -
mayuresh.github.io/python-firebase-
demo/advanced/chat.html
• Firebase URL - https://dazzling-fire-
5952.firebaseio.com/