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Serverless Web Applications with React and Firebase

By : Harmeet Singh, Mayur Tanna
Book Image

Serverless Web Applications with React and Firebase

By: Harmeet Singh, Mayur Tanna

Overview of this book

ReactJS is a wonderful framework for UI development. Firebase as a backend with React is a great choice as it is easy, powerful, and provides great developer experience. It removes a lot of boilerplate code from your app and allows you to focus on your app to get it out quickly to users. Firebase with React is also a good choice for Most Viable Product (MVP) development. This book provides more practical insights rather than just theoretical concepts and includes basic to advanced examples – from hello world to a real-time seat booking app and Helpdesk application This book will cover the essentials of Firebase and React.js and will take you on a fast-paced journey through building real-time applications with Firebase features such as Cloud Storage, Cloud Function, Hosting and the Realtime Database. We will learn how to secure our application by using Firebase authentication and database security rules. We will leverage the power of Redux to organize data in the front-end, since Redux attempts to make state mutations predictable by imposing certain restrictions on how and when updates can happen. Towards the end of the book you will have improved your React skills by realizing the potential of Firebase to create real-time serverless web applications.
Table of Contents (16 chapters)
Title Page
Copyright and Credits
Packt Upsell
Contributors
Preface
Free Chapter
1
Getting Started with Firebase and React
Index

Chapter 3. Authentication with Firebase

In the previous chapter, we learned about how we can integrate Firebase with ReactJS and how we can create a component in JSX. We also saw how we can interact with DOM elements to get the onSubmit form values and send them to the Firebase database to store and sync the form data in the cloud. React uses a fast, internal, synthetic DOM to perform to diffs and compute the most efficient DOM mutation for you where your component actively lives.

In this chapter, we'll create a login component with React and JSX to secure our helpdesk application with the Firebase authentication feature that allows only authorized users to view and add a new ticket.

Here's a list of the points that we'll focus on this chapter:

  • React and Firebase setup with Node.js
  • Composite component with React and JSX
  • Firebase Authentication Configuration
  • Custom Authentication
  • Third-Party Authentication with Facebook and Google