Mobile app development requires an HTTPS connection. Every React Native tutorial out there has a section on setting up user auth with Firebase, and then puttin

Mobile app development requires an HTTPS connection. Every React Native tutorial out there has a section on setting up user auth with Firebase, and then putting a few REST endpoints up. It is simple enough that a beginner "never touched mobile or web" development tutorial can go through it in under an hour. Firebase is incredibly simple to get started with. Another solution is to use one of the HTTPS port forwarding services that takes a localhost server and gives it a public HTTPS endpoint, but that is more work to explain than firebase deploy so the tutorial authors go with Firebase. Auth being super simple is icing on top.