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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

Firebase hosting


Firebase hosting provides a secure and easy way to host your static website and resources on CDN. The key features of Hosting are as follows:

  1. Served over a secure connection: Content is always delivered securely over SSL
  2. Faster Content Delivery: Files are cached at CDN edges around the globe, so there's faster content delivery.
  3. Faster Deployment: You can deploy your app using Firebase CLI within a few seconds
  4. Easy and Fast rollback: In case of any mistake, roll back with a single command

Hosting provides all the necessary infrastructure, features, and tooling tailored to deploying and managing static websites, whether it is a single page app or a complex progressive app.

Your site will be hosted on a subdomain on the firebaseapp.com domain by default. Using the Firebase CLI, you can deploy files from local directories on your computer to your Hosting server.

When you move your site to production, you can connect your own domain name to Firebase Hosting.

Deploying your site

You will...