Building a Realtime Chat App with Angular & Firebase

Course details

Angular 5 is a structural framework for building dynamic web applications. If youre facing a challenge in building robust and efficient web applications with Angular 5, then look no further as this video course will enable you to get to grips with Angular 5 by enabling you to build a realtime chat application using Angular 5, Angular CLI, Bootstrap 4 and Firebase. Initially, you will quickly scaffold a new Angular application using Angular CLI and then, youll add Bootstrap 4 and a few other dependencies to build your application rapidly. On your journey, you will create new pages, implement routing, authentication and more. Next, youll work on setting up a new Firebase account and integrating the Firebase backend into your Angular 5 application.
As you progress further, you will make use of a Reactive pattern and implement Observables to add realtime capabilities to your chat application. In addition to building a realtime chat room, you will also build user profile pages; implement a search engine for users and learn how to the send direct messages to users. Towards the end of this course, you will be able to build a fully featured realtime chat application using Angular 5 and Firebase and deploy it to AWS so that the world can see it. You will get started with Angular 5, understand how to apply it, and build some of the most robust, efficient and dynamic applications with Angular 5. After completing this course, you will likely find creative ways to apply it to your work.

About the Author

Brice Ayres is a husband, father, Army veteran and a professional full stack software engineer from Dallas, Texas. Brice became interested in web development over 15 years ago and got his start designing and building mostly static websites. However, over time he became more interested in backend development, databases, scalable infrastructure and wanted to further expand his knowledge. After serving nearly 6 years in the U.S. Army as a medic, he decided to go back to school and got his Bachelors of Science in computer science from The Citadel in Charleston, South Carolina. Since his start, he has built award-winning mobile applications as well as many cutting-edge web applications. In Brices spare time, he creates programming tutorials on YouTube all while dabbling with new frameworks and programming languages. His passion is to help and guide others who are interested in a career in programming.