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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


In this chapter, we talked about two advanced features of Firebase: Firebase Cloud Messaging and Firebase Cloud Functions. Using these two features, you can develop a highly interactive serverless app.

FCM is a messaging platform for reliable message delivery of downstream and upstream messages. We also discussed different message types and saw when to use one over another. To have practical experience on FCM, we enhanced our Helpdesk application to send and receive notifications.

We also spoke about Firebase Cloud Functions and saw how it helps to have a serverless app. We covered how to develop a cloud function and deploy it on the server. We also explored the different types of triggers, such as Realtime database triggers, HTTP triggers, Cloud Firestore triggers, Cloud Storage Triggers, and Auth triggers.

In the next chapter, we will cover other advanced and interesting features, such as Firebase Cloud Storage and integration of Firebase application with Google Cloud.