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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

Setting up the Cloud Storage


With Firebase SDK, we can easily integrate and set up Cloud Storage for Firebase in our application.

To set up Cloud Storage, you will need the URL of the Storage bucket, which you can get from our Firebase Console. You can get it from the Files tab of Storage menu, as illustrated:

Once you get it, you can add it to your Firebase config.

Consider this example:

import firebase from 'firebase';

const config = {
    apiKey: "AIzaSyDO1VEnd5VmWd2OWQ9NQkkkkh-ehNXcoPTy-w",
    authDomain: "demoproject-7cc0d.firebaseapp.com",
    databaseURL: "https://demoproject-7cc0d.firebaseio.com",
    projectId: "demoproject-7cc0d",
storageBucket: "gs://demoproject-7cc0d.appspot.com",
    messagingSenderId: "41428255555"
};

export const firebaseApp = firebase.initializeApp(config);

// Get a reference to the storage service,
var storage = firebase.storage();

Now we are ready to use Cloud storage. Now we need to create a reference, which can be used to navigate through the file hierarchy...