Intro

A Firebase boilerplate for the Web: with auth, storage, messaging and cloud functions out of the box. Bundled with Webpack 2. firebase-ignite is a serverless PWA.

Get started

Clone or fork the repo: https://github.com/collardeau/firebase-ignite.git

Install Dependencies

To deploy cloud functions, you'll need the Firebase CLI:

npm install -g firebase-tools

login to firebase if you haven't already: firebase login

install the local npm dependencies:

npm install in the root folder and the functions folder as well.

Set up Firebase

There are two environments to ready: staging and production.

• create 2 new firebase apps (for instance: my-app-production and my-app-staging) at https://firebase.google.com

• enable sign-in method for email/password for both (in the firebase console)

Now, edit in the configs in the following places:

• src/config.js
• sw/firebase-messaging-staging.js
• sw/firebase-messaging-producton.js

Finally, alias your projects, staging and production respectively, with:

firebase use --add

You're ignited and ready to go.

npm run dev

Devving

Be sure you've deployed the cloud functions first (see above), as a cloud function is used to create user profiles on registration.

npm run dev runs a webpack dev server with live reload at localhost:8080.

The staging env is used in DEV. PWA capacity is disabled to avoid caching, that can be tested on a staging deployment.

Test Drive

Once you run the app, you'll see a demo of the firebase integration. You'll be able to register/login (auth), save an avatar photo (storage), and send yourself notifications (messaging / cloud functions).

The UI uses React (with Recompose) with an app shell, but that's just to demo. firebase-ignite gives you a lot of freedom once you're hooked in firebase itself. Use your favorite tools.

Check the cloud functions logs in the firebase console.

Deploy

Static Web App

To deloy the app, you must first package your bundle and assets for the correct environment:

npm run build:staging or npm run build:production.

This will move everything you need into the dist folder, which still needs to be deployed, for example using zeit now:

npm install now -g now dist

Cloud Functions

Target an env with:

firebase use staging or firebase use production

Then, simply:

firebase deploy --only functions

and optionally return to the staging env for safety: firebase use staging

Code Architecture

WIP