Firebase cookbook : over 70 recipes to help you create real-time web and mobile applications with Firebase / Houssem Yahiaoui.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Yahiaoui, Houssem, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

JavaScript (Computer program language).

Web applications--Programming.

Web applications.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (1 volume) : illustrations

Edition:

1st edition

Other Title:

Over 70 recipes to help you create real-time web and mobile applications with Firebase

Place of Publication:

Birmingham, England ; Mumbai, [India] : Packt Publishing, 2017.

System Details:

text file

Biography/History:

Yahiaoui Houssem: Houssem Yahiaoui is a Telerik Developer Expert, Google Developer Group Lead, Meetup organizer, Conference Speaker, and Technical blogger among a few things. He has been a developer since the age of 14 and Firebase lover since day one. He's also a passionate JavaScript developer and strongly believes that JavaScript should fix the World's hanger problem.

Summary:

Practical solutions for developing seamless experiences for application that scales. About This Book A Solution based approach that would help you create high-quality apps for your businesses Harness the power of real-time database to create apps that work on multiple platforms Build a customized solution for your app development challenges with Firebase Who This Book Is For This book will assume you have at least a minimum set of skills in JavaScript, HTML and CSS. Also, having some familiarity with backend technologies will be helpful. After all we’re going to build a backend application that will change the way backend developer works. What You Will Learn Use Firebase Diverse Authentication systems Integrate easy, secure File Hosting using Firebase Storage services Make your application serverless using Firebase Cloud Functions Use the powerful Firebase Admin SDK for privilege management Use Firebase within NativeScript apps for cross-platform applications Modify, structure, save and serve data in and from Realtime Database Get acquainted with the newly introduce Cloud Firestore, a scalable database for your web and mobile applications In Detail Do you feel tired just thinking or even hearing about backend technologies, authentication or the tedious task of deployment? Firebase is here to change the way you develop and make your app a first-class citizen of the cloud. This books takes a solution based approach by providing you recipes that would help you understand the features of Firebase and implement them in your existing web or mobile applications. We start-off by creating our first Firebase application and integrating its services into different platforms and environments for mobile as well as web applications. Then we deep dive into Real-time Database and Firebase Storage that allows your users to access data across various devices with realtive ease. With each chapter you will gradually create the building blocks of your application from securing your data with Firebase Rules to authenticating your users with O-Auth. Moving along we would explore modern application development techniques such as creating serverless applications with Firebase Cloud Functions or turning your traditional applications into progressive apps with Service workers. Finally you will learn how to create cross-platform mobile apps, integrate Firebase in native platforms, and learn how to monetize your mobile applications using Admob for Android and iOS. Style a...

Contents:

Cover

Copyright

Credits

About the Author

About the Reviewer

www.PacktPub.com

Customer Feedback

Table of Contents

Preface

Chapter 1: Firebase - Getting Started

Introduction

Creating your first Firebase application

How to do it...

Adding Firebase to an existing frontend project

How it works...

Integrating Firebase into the backend

Integrating Firebase in Android applications

Getting ready

Integrating Firebase in iOS applications

Chapter 2: Firebase Real-Time Database

Saving and serving data in and from our Realtime Database

Updating and deleting data from our Realtime Database

Structuring data within our Realtime Database

Implementing offline capabilities support

Chapter 3: File Management with Firebase Storage

Creating file storage references

Implementing file upload

Implementing file serving and downloading

Implementing file deletion

Implementing file metadata updates

Firebase file storage error handling

Chapter 4: Firebase Authentication

Implementing email/password authentication

Implementing anonymous authentication

Implementing Facebook login

Implementing Twitter login

Implementing Google Sign-in

How to do it.

How it works...

Implementing user metadata retrieval

Implementing the linking of multiple authentication providers

Chapter 5: Securing Application Flow with Firebase Rules

Configuring the Firebase Bolt language compiler

Configuring database data security rules

Configuring database user data security rules

Configuring storage files security rules

Configuring user storage files security rules

Chapter 6: Progressive Applications Powered by Firebase

Integrating Node-FCM in a NodeJS server

Implementing service workers

Implementing sending/receiving registration using Socket.IO

Implementing sending/receiving registration using post requests

Receiving web push notification messages

Implementing custom notification messages

Chapter 7: Firebase Admin SDK

Integrating the Firebase Admin SDK

Implementing user account management by fetching users

Implementing user account management by creating accounts

Implementing user account management by deleting accounts

Implementing notification sending

Chapter 8: Extend Firebase with Cloud Functions

Introduction.

Getting started with Cloud Functions

Implementing data manipulation

Implementing data-change monitoring

Welcoming users upon account creation

Implementing account email confirmation

Sending re-engagement emails to inactive Firebase users

Chapter 9: We're Done, Let's Deploy

Deploying our application to Firebase

Customizing the Firebase hosting environment

Chapter 10: Integrating Firebase with NativeScript

Starting a NativeScript project

Adding the Firebase plugin to our application

Pushing/retrieving data from the Firebase Realtime Database

Authenticating using anonymous or password authentication

Authenticating using Google Sign-In

Adding dynamic behavior using Firebase Remote Config

Chapter 11: Integrating Firebase with Android/iOS Natively

Implementing the pushing and retrieving of data from Firebase Realtime Database

Implementing password authentication on iOS

How it works ...

Implementing password authentication on Android

How it works.

Implementing Google Sign-in authentication

Getting ready...

Implementing Facebook login authentication

Facebook authentication in Android

How it works

Facebook authentication in iOS

Generating a crash report using Firebase Crash Report

Adding dynamic behavior using Firebase Remote Config in Android

Adding dynamic behavior using Firebase Remote Config in iOS

Chapter 12: Hack Application's Growth

Implementing sending/receiving app invite in Android/iOS

Implementing topic subscription in Android/ iOS

Chapter 13: Adding Analytics and Maximizing Earnings

Integrating Firebase analytics into Android/iOS applications

Implementing event logging on Android/iOS

Implementing user properties for data and audience filtering

Integrating Firebase AdMob with Android/iOS applications

Implementing Firebase AdMob banner ads on Android/iOS

Implementing Firebase AdMob native ads express on Android/iOS

Implementing AdMob ads targeting

Appendix: Firebase Cloud FireStore

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (EBC, viewed December 29, 2017).

ISBN:

9781788292399

1788292391

OCLC:

1018473325