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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

Firebase Cloud Messaging (FCM)


FCM provides a platform that helps you send the messages and notifications to the app user in real-time using service workers. You can send hundreds of billions of messages per day for free across different platforms: Android, iOS, and web (Javascript). You can also schedule the message delivery, immediately or in future.

There are two main components in  FCM implementation: a trusted environment that includes an app server or a Cloud function to send the messages, and an iOS, Android, or web (JavaScript) client app that receives the messages.

If you know about the Google Cloud Messaging (GCM), you might have a question of how FCM is different from GCM. The answer to this question is that FCM is the latest and improved version of GCM. It inherits all the infrastructure of GCM and carries improvements for the simplified client development. Just note that GCM is not deprecated and Google is still supporting it. However, the new client-side features will only come...