jerryjazzz / friendlypix-web

FriendlyPix is a cross-platform Firebase example app - This is the web version

Friendly Pix Web

Friendly Pix Web is a sample app demonstrating how to build a JavaScript/Web app with the Firebase Platform.

Friendly Pix is a place where you can share photos, follow friends, comment on photos...

Initial setup, build tools and dependencies

Friendly Pix is built using Javascript, Firebase and jQuery. The Auth flow is built using Firebase-UI. Javascript dependencies are managed using bower and Build/Deploy tools dependencies are managed using npm. Also Friendly Pix is written in ES2015 so for wide browser support we'll transpile the code to ES5 using BabelJs. Additionally server-side micro-services are built on Cloud Functions for Firebase.

Install all Build/Deploy tools dependencies by running:

$ npm install

Create and configure your Firebase Project

1. Create a Firebase project using the Firebase Console.
2. Enable Google as a Sign in provider in Firebase Console > Authentication > Sign in Method tab.
3. Enable Facebook as a Sign in provider in Firebase Console > Authentication > Sign in Method tab. You'll need to provide your Facebook app's credentials. If you haven't yet you'll need to have created a Facebook app on Facebook for Developers
4. At the root of the site run firebase use --add. When prompted select the Firebase Project you have just created. This will make sure the Firebase CLI is configured to use your particular project.

Start a local development server

You can start a local development server by running:

npm run serve

This will start firebase serve and make sure your Javascript files are transpiled automatically to ES5.

This is currently broken on Windows. On Windows please run the following commands separately instead: bower install, babel -w scripts -s --retain-lines -d lib and firebase serve.

Then open http://localhost:5000

Note: Cloud Functions cannot yet be ran locally. Deploy the app to deploy and enable the Cloud Functions.

Deploy the app

Before deploying your code you need to build it for production. Run:

npm run build

This will install all runtime dependencies and transpile the Javascript code to ES5 and install Cloud Functions dependencies. Then run:

firebase deploy

Then this deploys a new version of your code that will be served from https://<PROJECT_ID>.firebaseapp.com

Contributing

We'd love that you contribute to the project. Before doing so please read our Contributor guide.

License

© Google, 2011. Licensed under an Apache-2 license.