OnEBoard Chat: Use Gemini Canvas with Firebase to Create a Web App (No coding skills needed)

In this week's OnEBoard Chat Nina Trankova gave an overview on how to use Gemini Canvas with Firebase to create and deploy a web app. No coding skill needed!

Nina shared her experience using Gemini Canvas and Firebase to create a subscription app for an agricultural festival. Yes, this is about vibe coding!

Technical platforms used:

Google Workspace for Nonprofits account
Google Gemini 2.5 Flash
Google Gemini Canvas
Google Sites
Firebase (Firestore Database)

Topics

Creating a web app using Gemini Canvas
Configuring the Firebase backend
Data ownership and security
The cost for non-profits (her deployment is currently free!)
Comparison with other methods of collecting subscriber data

Takeaways

Nina Trankova: "I'm not coding. So when I see code I just forget it and look for some other ways to complete my tasks or tasks for my clients or just make an agreement with a developer." This approach "gives you the code ready for a blink of an eye!" and is "the biggest revolution to give professionals the opportunity to code without coding skills."

Nina Trankova: "So my take is that this is your own data managed on your own domain. It's ready to be scaled. So as the festival grows and the user base is secure with the Google Enterprise security, that's what we get being on the Firebase console with Google for work for nonprofits."

Bob Danley: "it'll allow people to dip their toe in the water, you know, that give it a try, you know, and that it may you might find out that it's not as scary as you imagine and that what you come up with will be very effective and co and cost effective."