last-api-firebase

Installation

First, create a project on Firebase

Install Firebase tools

• https://firebase.google.com/docs/cli#install-cli-mac-linux
• Log in to firebase with firebase login
• Select project with firebase projects:list

Connect to your Firebase

• Cmd+Shift+F your-app-name and replace all project name instances with the name of your firebase project
• Generate a new private key from https://console.firebase.google.com/u/0/project/your-app-name/settings/serviceaccounts/adminsdk
• Name the private key serviceAccountKey.json and it to the root directory of this project

Run locally

• Note that the root folder is the project container, and the actual Node app is inside of functions/.
• Meaning that you'll do git in one terminal tab at the root folder, and use another tab at /functions for running the API

cd functions
npm install
npm run dev

• Dev server will run at http://localhost:4001/your-app-name/us-central1/v1/
• Emulator dashboard will run at http://localhost:4000

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Deployment

Once you've connected your Firebase account,

cd functions
npm install
npm run deploy

Will deploy to Firebase

• Runs at https://us-central1-your-app-name.cloudfunctions.net/v1

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Example Routes

Note: POST params expect a JSON body

POST /widgets - Create a widget.

• title: (optional) widget title
• description: (optional) widget description

GET /widgets/:widgetId - Read an widget. Response contains all the resources and their fields.

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VSCode super productivity setup:

• Set up VSCode to run Prettier on save
• Get Github Copilot autocomplete
• Enable VSCode debugging breakpoints