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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

Google App Engine


Google App Engine is a "Platform as a Service" that abstracts away the infrastructure worries and lets you focus only on code. It provides an automatically scalable platform that scales based on the amount of traffic it receives. You just need to upload your code, and it will automatically manage the availability of your app. Google App Engine is an easy and fast way to add additional processing power or trusted execution to your Firebase application.

If you have an App Engine application, you can use the built-in App Engine APIs to share data between Firebase and App Engine, since the Firebase SDKs for Cloud Storage use the Google App Engine default bucket. This is useful for performing computation intensive background processing or image operations, such as creating a thumbnail of uploaded image.

The Google App Engine standard environment provides an environment where your application runs in a sandbox, using the runtime environment of a supported language viz, Python 2...