If I were to make a 100% client-side app with Firebase as the backend, how would I prevent somebody from taking all my static files, changing the Firebase references to point to their own Firebase, and releasing a competing product?
This is technically a possibility (there's no way to prevent it outright), but it isn't isolated to Firebase. With the move towards rich, client-side web apps, more and more of the "interesting" application logic lives in the client and could be examined or copied. However there are a few mitigating factors:
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