gbrowns / inventory-api-firebase

demistifying cloud functions with firebase

Express-Firebase-API

A simple express api, that utilizes firebase cloud functions & firestore and performs CRUD operations

• Uses firebase local emulator suite.

Environment

• Ubuntu LTS

Tools

1. Firebase Cloud Firestore
2. Firebase Local Emulator Suite
3. Firebase Cloud Function
4. Expressjs

Setup

1. Clone the following repository to local machine

• git clone https://github.com/Godwin254/inventory-api-firebase/

2. Navigate to the project folder

• cd inventory-api-firebase

3. Navigate to the functions directory

• cd functions

4. Install all dependencies

• npm install

5. Start the firebase emulator

• npm run serve

6. Visit the generated functions url to send requests to the inventory endponts

• GET functions_url/inventories - retrieves all inventories
• GET functions_url/inventories/id - retrieves a single inventory
• POST functions_url/inventories - creates an inventories
• PUT functions_url/inventories/id - updates a single inventory
• DELETE functions_url/inventories - delete a single inventory

Chech the postman documentation