Hosting with Firebase - Speaker Deck

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Hosting with Firebase Ire Aderinokun Google Launchpad Build 2016 (Lagos)

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Hello! • Ire Aderinokun • User Interface Designer & Front-End Developer • Head of Technology, Big Cabal Media • Google Developer Expert (Web Technologies)

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What We’ll Cover • What is Firebase Hosting? • Why Static Hosting? • Key Features of Firebase Hosting • Getting Started with Firebase Hosting • More Features of Firebase Hosting

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What is Firebase Hosting?

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The Firebase Suite

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The Firebase Suite

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Firebase Hosting is production-grade, web content hosting for developers

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“Production Grade”

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“Web Content”

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“For Developers”

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Why Static Hosting?

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Increase in Popularity Decrease in Popularity Stack Overflow Developer Survey 2016 (http://stackoverflow.com/research/developer-survey-2016)

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The Power of Front-End Frameworks

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Progressive Web Applications

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Key Features of Firebase Hosting

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Served Over a Secure Connection

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Zero-configuration SSL is built into Firebase Hosting so content is always delivered securely

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The Importance of HTTPS • Security for Users • Modern Web APIs require HTTPS (e.g. Service Worker, Push API) • The Future Default

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Fast Content Delivery

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Each file you upload is cached on SSDs at CDN edges around the world

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Rapid Deployment

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Using the Firebase CLI, you can get your app up and running in seconds

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firebase deploy

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One-Click Rollbacks

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Firebase Hosting provides full versioning and release management with one-click rollbacks

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Getting Started with Firebase Hosting

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4 Simple Steps 1. Create a new Firebase project 2. Install the Firebase CLI 3. Initialise your application 4. Deploy your website

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1. Create a Firebase project

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2. Install the Firebase CLI

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Dependencies • Node.js (> 0.10.0) • NPM

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npm install -g firebase-tools

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3. Initialise your Application

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firebase init

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firebase.json { “hosting”: { “public”: “app”, “ignore”: [ “firebase.json”, “**/*.*”, “**/node_modules/**” ] } }

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.firebaserc { “projects”: { “default”: “PROJECT_NAME_HERE” } }

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4. Deploy your Website

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firebase deploy

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https://YOUR_FIREBASE_APP_NAME.firebaseapp.com

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More Features

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Do More with Firebase • Hooking up a Custom Domain • Setting up a Staging Environment • Setting up URL Redirects and Rewrites • Setting Custom Headers • Scaling your Application

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Hooking up a Custom Domain

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Automatically Secure

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Setting up a Staging Environment

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1. Create a new Firebase Project

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2. Link New Project Under “staging” Alias firebase use --add

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.firebaserc { “projects”: { “default”: “offline-fx”, “staging”: “offline-fx-staging” } }

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3. Deploy from “staging” Environment

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Setting up URL Redirects & Rewrites

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Redirects { “redirects”: [{ “source”: “/old-url-path”, “destination”: “/new-url-path”, “type”: 301 }] }

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Rewrites { “rewrites”: [{ “source”: “**”, “destination”: “/index.html” }] }

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Setting Custom Headers

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Headers • Cache-Control • Access-Control-Allow-Origin • X-UA-Compatible • X-Content-Type-Options • X-Frame-Options • X-XSS-Protection • Content-Type

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e.g. Access-Control-Allow-Origin { “headers”: [{ “source”: “**/*.@(eot|otf|ttf|ttc|woff|font.css)”, “headers”: [{ “key”: “Access-Control-Allow-Origin”, “value”: “*” }] }] }

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e.g. Cache-Control { “headers”: [{ “source”: “**/*.@(jpg|jpeg|gif|png)”, “headers”: [{ “key”: “Cache-Control”, “value”: “max-age=7200” }] }] }