https://github.com/rajtatata/securechat-firebase-backend
Firebase Backend for SecureChat App
https://github.com/rajtatata/securechat-firebase-backend
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Firebase Backend for SecureChat App
- Host: GitHub
- URL: https://github.com/rajtatata/securechat-firebase-backend
- Owner: rajtatata
- Created: 2019-08-19T14:21:20.000Z (almost 7 years ago)
- Default Branch: master
- Last Pushed: 2019-08-20T09:15:54.000Z (almost 7 years ago)
- Last Synced: 2025-01-06T10:13:16.762Z (over 1 year ago)
- Topics: chat, firebase, functions, messenger, realtimedb
- Language: JavaScript
- Homepage: https://github.com/rajtatata/securechat
- Size: 2.93 KB
- Stars: 2
- Watchers: 1
- Forks: 0
- Open Issues: 0
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Metadata Files:
- Readme: README.md
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README
# Secure Chat Firebase Backend
This is the repo of firebase backend of [SecureChat](https://github.com/rajtatata/securechat)
## Installation
- Go to [firebase console]("https://console.firebase.google.com") and create a new project or use an existing one
- Go to Project Settings (click on settings icon 
next to Project Overview)
- On the General Tab save the Web API Key
- This will be needed to configure the mobile app
- Go to Service Accounts tab
- On Firebase Admin SDK click Generate new private key
- Open the downloaded file and copy everything inside and paste it to `/functions/ServiceAccountKey.json` file
- Create a Realtime Database
- Navigate to Database on the left sidebar
- Scroll down to Realtime Database and click on Create Database (start in locked mode)
- Save the database url
- Copy the database url link, it should look something like `https://[project-name].firebaseio.com/`
- Paste this url at `/functions/index.js` file at `databaseURL`
- This will also be needed to configure the mobile app later
- Allow reading on the database
- Navigate to rules and make `read` = `true` and click Publish
```js
{
"rules": {
".read": true,
".write": false
}
}
```
- Now we just need to deploy this repo to firebase cloud functions
```bash
npm install -g firebase-tools # install firebase-tools if you haven't
firebase init
# follow the instructions,
# choose firebase cloud functions,
# choose your newly created existing project,
# press enter on everything else
firebase depoy # after init has finished just deploy to cloud functions in the end
```
- Keep track of the firebase functions urls
- There should be 4:
- `https://[some-location-project-name].cloudfunctions.net/getUserId`
- `https://[some-location-project-name].cloudfunctions.net/sendMessage`
- `https://[some-location-project-name].cloudfunctions.net/deleteMessage`
- `https://[some-location-project-name].cloudfunctions.net/getRandomAvatar`
- Keep track of the base url `https://[some-location-project-name].cloudfunctions.net`
- You will need it when configuring the mobile app later