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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

Cloud Functions


Generally, any software application has some kind of backend logic that gets deployed on the server to be accessible through the internet. In case of big enterprise-level applications such as Banking or Finance, it may be worth to manage a server or cluster of servers. However, in case of small applications or the application where you want to execute certain logic depending on some user events, such as data changes in database or on API requests from mobile app or a web application, managing a server may be an overhead in terms of efforts as well as cost. However, when you use the Firebase platform, you don't need to worry about it as it provides Cloud Functions that lets you run code based on events emitted by specific Firebase products without managing servers.

Key features of Cloud Functions

Cloud Functions come with a lot features, including easy integration with other Firebase Products and third-party APIs, and powerful security and privacy.

The key features of the Cloud...