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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

Backups


In the first section of this chapter, we saw how important it is to manage the backups of the data. Though you can take and maintain your data backups manually, there are chances that you miss out something and lose the backups. Fortunately, Firebase provides an automatic backup service that can be set up to take automatic backups of your data and rules daily. Note that this service is only available to Blaze plan users and will be chargeable as per Standard rates. You can check various subscription plans available at https://firebase.google.com/pricing/.

Setup

You can set up database backups from the Backups tab of the Realtime Database of Firebase section. The setup wizard will guide you through the steps to configure automatic backups. Your Database backup activity will happen at a specific hour each day without affecting the load and ensures the highest availability for all backup customers.

Additionally, you can also take a manual backup whenever you want to get a point in time...