Firebase started out as a database backend service for real-time apps, but today it's taking a step in another direction. The company is expanding its platform with a hosting service for web apps ...

Google is open sourcing the client libraries of its Firebase mobile/Web development platform, which supports apps with a host of back-end services such as the popular Crashlytics crash reporting tool.

Firebase App Hosting is a serverless web hosting solution that will manage everything from building the application to the CDN for distributing content and server-side rendering for developers.