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Serverless Web Applications with React and Firebase

By : Harmeet Singh, Mayur Tanna
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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

Summary


In this chapter, we saw how JSX plays an important role in making custom components in React as well as making them very simple to visualize, understand, and write. We also saw how props and state play an important role in making components interactive as well as in DOM interaction to get the value from form fields. With the help of refs, we can call any public method and send a message to our particular child instance.

Also, we explored the React-Bootstrap components by creating an Add Ticket form, which works well on all expected devices as well as on desktop browsers.

In addition, we saw how easy it is to use Firebase Realtime Database with a ReactJS application. With just a few lines of code, we can save the data to the Realtime Database and retrieve the list of tickets from the database in Realtime to make our application Realtime.

In the next chapter, we will do React and Firebase setup on node.js environment and how we can use the Firebase OAuth Providers to add authentication...