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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

How secure is your Firebase?


Firebase is on cloud storage, so obviously, people think whether it is secure enough. However, there's nothing to worry, as Firebase provides a secured architecture and a set of tools to manage the security of your app. Firebase is hosted on SSL (Secure Sockets Layer), which typically encrypts the connection between client and server and hence prevents any data theft or manipulation at the network layer. Firebase comes with an expression-based rule language that allows you to manage data security by just doing configuration.

Firebase security is all about the configuration over convention so that your application's security-related logic is separate from your business logic. In this way, it makes your application loosely coupled.

In this chapter, we will learn about Firebase Realtime Database security and rules.

Realtime Database Rules Overview

Firebase Database Rules allow you to manage the read and write access permissions to your database. They also help you define...