Algolia is a hosted search engine that can provide real-time results on search from the very first keystroke entered. Firebase Cloud storage is a cloud-hosted storage that lets us store files of any kind on the cloud while Firestore refers to the NoSQL real-time database on Firebase that lets you build collaborative apps by allowing secured access to your database directly from the server-side. NextJS is an open source development framework built on NodeJS that allows React-based applications to be rendered server-side. We will be building basically a NextJS front-end application with Firebase Cloud storage, Firestore database, and Algolia on the back-end.

Setting up our Applicationįor the purpose of this tutorial, we will be making use of different technologies in building our application. We will also learn how to use Google Firebase Cloud storage, access the Firestore database and use Algolia service to provide data from our database to our application. In this tutorial, we will be building a simple music application where we can upload music of our choice and stream them directly from the app. Some apps that offer this service include Spotify, Netflix, and Audiomack, among others.

Streaming is a process by which we listen to music or watch a video in real-time rather than downloading it on our device. A music streaming application, as the name implies, is simply an application that lets you stream music on your device.