Firebase Hosting

Firebase Hosting Client Set up

1) npm install -g firebase-tools 
2) firebase login
3) firebase init hosting
4) pick folder
5) firebase serve (if u want to see how the site looks in dev)
6) firebase deploy

Server side Hosting

• npm i -g firebase-tools
• firebase init hosting
• pick folder (public)
• firebase init functions
• server code goes into functions folder
• cd functions & install express
• now you should have a firebase public & functions folder
• go into functions index.js

const functions = require('firebase-functions');
const express = require('express')

const app = express()

app.get('/user', (req, res) => {
    res.send('user')
})

//name this in firebase.json 'app;
exports.app = functions.https.onRequest(app)

• hook up functions with hosting project by going into the firebase.json

 {
  "hosting": {
    "public": "firebase-hosting",
    "rewrites": [{
      "source": "/user",
      "function": "app"
    }],
    "ignore": [
      "firebase.json",
      "**/.*",
      "**/node_modules/**"
    ]
  }
}

• in command line: firebase serve --only functions,hosting
• set firebase env variables