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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

Key features of Cloud Storage for Firebase


Cloud Storage for Firebase inherits advantages or features from Google Cloud Storage. However, it has some additional features, such as declarative security rule language, to specify security rules.

The key features of Cloud Storage are as follows:

  1. Ease of use and Robustness: Cloud storage for Firebase is a simple and powerful solution to store and retrieve the user-generated content such as documents, photos, audio, or videos. It provides robust upload and download capabilities so that file transfers get paused when internet connectivity drops and resume from where they were left when it is connected again. It saves time as well as your internet bandwidth. The API for Cloud storage is also easy and can be used through the use of Firebase SDK.
  1. Powerful Security: When it comes to storage in the cloud, the first thing we think about is the security. Is it secure enough? What will happen to my documents? Such questions are obvious and important also....