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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 explored React and Firebase in depth. We talked about the structure of the data in Firebase database and have seen that we should avoid data nesting as much as possible. We have also seen the usage of the on and once methods with respect to data reading and also the event called 'value', which gets fired when data changes in your database. We also went through the core concepts of Redux and saw how easy it is to use Redux for the state management of the application. We also looked at the difference between Presentational and Container components and how they should be designed. Then, we talked about the basics of Redux and also talked briefly about the advanced topics of Redux.

Moreover, we created a seat booking application with the usage of all three—React, Redux and Firebase—and saw a real-life practical example of the smooth integration of all them.

In the next chapter, we will explore Firebase Admin SDK and see how to implement User and Access Management.