--- title: Announcing Firechat: Open Source, Real-Time Chat | daily.dev description: Firebase introduced Firechat, an open source, multi-featured real-time chat library built entirely with client-side code on top of Firebase. It offers public... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/announcing-firechat-open-source-real-time-chat-hos9t6d0z twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Announcing Firechat: Open Source, Real-Time Chat | daily.dev og:description: Firebase introduced Firechat, an open source, multi-featured real-time chat library built entirely with client-side code on top of Firebase. It offers public... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/announcing-firechat-open-source-real-time-chat-hos9t6d0z og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/hoS9t6D0Z.png og:image:alt: Announcing Firechat: Open Source, Real-Time Chat og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Announcing Firechat: Open Source, Real-Time Chat **[Firebase](https://daily.dev/sources/firebase-blog)** · 2 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Firebase introduced Firechat, an open source, multi-featured real-time chat library built entirely with client-side code on top of Firebase. It offers public and private chat rooms, user presence, search, muting, and invitations out of the box, integrating with existing authentication or Firebase Simple Login. Security is handled via Firebase's declarative Security Rules. Source code, documentation, and a live demo are available on GitHub. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: --- Tags: [#javascript](https://daily.dev/tags/javascript), [#open-source](https://daily.dev/tags/open-source), [#firebase](https://daily.dev/tags/firebase) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/announcing-firechat-open-source-real-time-chat-hos9t6d0z) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"TechArticle","headline":"Announcing Firechat: Open Source, Real-Time Chat","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/announcing-firechat-open-source-real-time-chat-hos9t6d0z","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/announcing-firechat-open-source-real-time-chat-hos9t6d0z"},"datePublished":"2026-08-23T12:20:41.768Z","dateModified":"2026-08-23T12:33:43.983Z","description":"Firebase introduced Firechat, an open source, multi-featured real-time chat library built entirely with client-side code on top of Firebase. It offers public...","image":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/f_auto,q_auto/v1/posts/7ed721de96163685d26ab7e314be3ebc?_a=AQAEuop","thumbnailUrl":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/f_auto,q_auto/v1/posts/7ed721de96163685d26ab7e314be3ebc?_a=AQAEuop","isAccessibleForFree":true,"articleSection":"Firebase","inLanguage":"en","publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180}},"author":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Firebase","logo":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/s--i395oqZH--/f_auto,q_auto/v1787487448/logos/firebase-blog?_a=BAMAMicg0","url":"https://daily.dev/sources/firebase-blog"},"commentCount":0,"discussionUrl":"https://daily.dev/posts/announcing-firechat-open-source-real-time-chat-hos9t6d0z","interactionStatistic":[{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"LikeAction"},"userInteractionCount":0},{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"CommentAction"},"userInteractionCount":0}],"keywords":"javascript,open-source,firebase","timeRequired":"PT2M"} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https://daily.dev"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Firebase","item":"https://daily.dev/sources/firebase-blog"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"name":"Announcing Firechat: Open Source, Real-Time Chat"}]} ```