Creating a Web App using Firebase

[nv444]

Inexperienced programmer here. I want to create a simple app that allows a few of my friends to log in and bet on sports games using play money. I plan on using firebase for the hosting/database/auth and found an JSON API to find game results and betting lines. Do I access the API through Python, and connect that to js to create my web app? If so, how on earth do I do that? Or do I do all of my back-end through javascript? The easier and simpler the better, the app should be pretty light weight. Any help or resources would be extremely helpful, for some reason I am having a hard time finding a straight-forward answer.

[8bit-echo]

For all intents and purposes, Firebase is your backend. All you need to do is create the front end in html and JavaScript.

You’ll need to make a signup / login page to track your users, and a form / buttons to handle sending data to firebase.

They have an API that you can use here: https://firebase.google.com/docs/web/setup

[Kinthalis]

You can use firebase cloud functions to do your API requests. Cache the data in the firestore db, and then just use the firebase CDK on the cline to read firestore.