Real-Time Data and Push Notifications with BaaS
Add live, reactive features and engagement-driving push notifications to your indie app using the real-time and messaging capabilities of Backend-as-a-Service platforms.
Why Real-Time Matters
Modern users expect chats, feeds, and dashboards to update instantly without refreshing. BaaS platforms make real-time achievable for a solo developer.
This lesson covers live data sync and push notifications.
Polling vs Real-Time
Two ways to keep data fresh:
- Polling: ask the server repeatedly (wasteful, laggy)
- Real-time: the server pushes changes as they happen
BaaS platforms like Firebase and Supabase offer real-time out of the box.
All lessons in this course
- Introduction to BaaS Platforms
- User Authentication & Security
- Cloud Databases & Functions
- Real-Time Data and Push Notifications with BaaS