Combining Webflow and Firebase for creating beautiful web-apps. Faster
Published: 2020-06-17 09:42:50

Becoming a self-employed web developer is easy, staying so is hard. That's because creating beautiful, easy to use web-apps is only half of the work. You also need to promote your services, onboard clients, manage those clients, finish the work you've been hired for and learn new stuff in order to improve.

That's why having a good process to create solid web-apps faster **is key** for a successful business while having some fun along the way. It marks the difference between a beginner and a professional.

In recent years there have been increased interest in a movement called No-Code. The premise is that you could build an MVP in days instead of weeks just by getting some tools talk to each other by wiring it all together with something like Zapier. I'm not particularly interested to stop writing code, because this approach has limitations. However, what interest me the most is that by using some of these tools, you could **reduce** the code that needs to be written and **accelerate** the development process of almost any web-app without compromising quality. Now we're talking.

That's how I discovered Webflow. It's a tool that lets you design responsive web-apps visually. This is something I struggled to believe at first, until I tried it. Let me summarize it with this: You could design **anything** and then export the source code without breaking a sweat. That alone frees a lot of time to focus on other tasks.

The other half is Firebase. I actually don't know where to start, it does almost everything you could need for the backend: Authentication, File Storage, Databases, Offline Mode, Analytics, Performance Reports, Security, Hosting, Notifications and more features get added frequently. Everything works fast, and the tooling is very easy to use.

What do you get if you combine Firebase and Webflow? In one word: **time**. That allows you to focus on other areas of the business while creating awesome web-apps without sacrificing quality. I've been using these two for the past two years for all my clients. It almost feels like cheating.

That's why I decided to share everything I've learned in the form of a course. My objective is to help you enhance the quality of work while speeding the process at the same time. 

The course is split into **3** phases, I'm calling it: **Fireweb** (get it?).

It will include two finished projects and an ebook with technical guidance, templates and tips. These projects will serve not only for learning purposes but you could sell them to customers and make a profit right away.

And that is the main difference between **Fireweb** and other courses and tutorials out there. I'm not going to teach you how to build a tic-tac-toe, a todo list or any other demo app. Rather, we'll go from idea to execution with useful projects that businesses would pay money right away. It'll help your portfolio and wallet at the same time, something I've would loved to had at the beginning.

Also, if you expect the typical Angular vs React type of thing, this isn't for you. In fact, the only requirement is that you know some basic Javascript and willingness to try a new approach.

I strongly believe that at the end of the course you could build almost any web-app in no time. If that interests you, please check it out on my personal website https://erikmejia.com/