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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


This chapter explains the common security threats to data, especially when it resides on cloud, and how we can secure our data. It also explains that Firebase is secure and we shouldn't worry much about the security of data as far as we manage the security properly at our end by defining proper rules in database and control access to the data to the authorized users.

Firebase is hosted on Secure Server Layer, which manages the security at the transport layer. It also gives you a powerful yet simple Rule engine that can be configured to secure your data and, at the same time, give the benefit of separation of concern—separates security logic from application logic.

We also learned in detail about security rules and how we can define them using simple JavaScript-like syntax.

In the next chapter, we will explore Firebase Cloud Messaging and Cloud Functions.