Serverless with Firebase in the wild
summary
Rewriting a legacy nutrition app in six months on a ~$100k budget uses Firebase (Firestore, Auth, Hosting, Storage, Cloud Functions), Angular, Stripe for payments and CircleCI for CI/CD; Firestore handles documents and queries but native text search is weak so the build adds Algolia for search, with functions issuing short-lived API keys. Deployment uses firebase deploy tokens; security rules are powerful but hard to debug; long Excel imports exceed the 9 minute function timeout so an App Engine import service is used; onboarding each developer takes about four hours.
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- 0:00Start
- 19:56set up email and password
- 23:37use the firestore
- 30:45set a breakpoint
- 32:27setting a breakpoint
- 34:13install all of your dependencies
- 37:30deploy your function
- 42:08using circle ci for our ci cd
- 43:20installing all our dependencies
- 43:51build all the static assets into a dist folder
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