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title: About
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description: This history and future of React Native Firebase
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# About React Native Firebase
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The React Native Firebase project started life in late 2016 as a personal project [Mike Diarmid](https://twitter.com/mikediarmid)
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and [Elliot Hesp](https://twitter.com/elliothesp) were working on. The project gained instant popularity, allowing React Native developers
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to hook into the native services Firebase provides.
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During the first few months of its development, the repository was moved into the organization of Invertase on GitHub.
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The organization was a collection of the personal and combined Open Source efforts Mike and Elliot had been
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working over the past number of years. With a constant flow of feature requests, issues and contributions,
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the library rapidly grew in popularity, achieving over 100k NPM downloads in its first 12 months of development.
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In mid-2017, we were approached by Google, who offered to help ensure the projects continued support by providing direct contact with the
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Firebase team and by providing funding to ensure the project had dedicated time assigned to its upkeep.
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In the 2018 Firebase Summit in Prague during the opening keynote, Google openly announced their
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working relationship with Invertase - check it out below:
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[https://twitter.com/rnfirebase/status/1056839638961348608/video/1](https://twitter.com/rnfirebase/status/1056839638961348608/video/1)
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## Future of the library
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The React Native Firebase library has been a huge driving force for our knowledge and experience. Even with years of
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experience in Open Source, JavaScript, Android and iOS, we're constantly learning and improving the library -
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whilst focusing on the needs of the community and many users of the library. Maintaining a popular Open Source
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library is hard, yet rewarding work.
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With the support from the community and Google, we're pleased to announce that starting in 2019, our very own
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Mike Diarmid will be working full time on the library. With the lessons we've learnt, we'll be focusing on taking the
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library to a new level. Read about it [here](https://invertase.io/blog/react-native-firebase-2019).
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The success and upkeep of the library would not be possible without the support and contributions from the community.
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To date, we've had contributions from 114 members of the Open Source community on the repository to who we're very
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grateful to, the project wouldn't be where it is without you. Special thanks to Chris Bianca
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at [CS Frequency Limited](http://invertase.link/csf-website) for their work in helping to get this project off the ground.
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We'd also like to extend our thanks to our backers on Open Collective, whose contributions have made it possible to
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sustain the vast amount of time required in the upkeep of such a project.
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The future of Invertase and React Native Firebase is exciting.
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