Recently whilst I was attempting to port over a TypeScript/Webpack based Aurelia application to work with Aurelia’s newly released server-side rendering functionality, I encountered an annoying error with Firebase Firebase App named ‘[DEFAULT]’ already exists. Previously, my code looked like this: import * as firebase from ‘firebase’; const config = { apiKey: “”, authDomain: “”, … →

Firebase Cloud Functions are fantastic, but the URL that you get to run them isn’t so nice. You’ll get given a URL that looks like the following when you create some cloud functions: https://us-central1-demoapp.cloudfunctions.net/functionName If you are wanting to use Firebase to build an API for your application for example (like I wanted to), then … →

Admittedly, Google’s developer event IO has grown to be quite interesting the last couple of years. This year (2017) I was excited to see what would be announced in the world of Firebase. I’ve been using Firebase on and off for the last couple of years. Recently, I’ve found a renewed sense of excitement in … →

Firebase Cloud Functions are great, but there might come a time where you need CORS support. This can be enabled easily by using the CORS middleware. The documentation does detail part of the process, but it doesn’t mention you need to install the cors package and also specify origin: true as a configuration option. If … →

Because Firebase is a NoSQL JSON data store, you might have noticed that when you get some data from Firebase that it is an object. If the title wasn’t obvious enough, we are talking about using Firebase Realtime Database in a web application. Take the following example: firebase.database().ref(‘/posts’).on(‘value’, function(snapshot) { console.log(snapshot.val()); }); Let’s imagine that … →