At this time, Firebase functions don’t natively have the functionality for sending custom emails on their own. Google’s own documentation also suggests one of their own partner platforms like Sendgrid for sending emails. Although you have the option of sending…
The Realtime Database API in Firebase is based on callbacks. This could be fine for you if you are maintaining a codebase which is a few years old. But, if you prefer a Promise, or better yet async await approach, you will be…
When a user signs up for your app, Firebase creates their profile in Firebase Authentication. This is great because most of the hard stuff like OAuth and validation is being handled automatically for you. This, however, has its limitations. Auth…
Often times, you may hear that for Node.js development, the code logic should be separated into different modules. This is logical and obviously the best practice whenever you are writing code for the real world. In Firebase Cloud Functions, you can…
To get all the users from auth in Firebase, you can use the Admin SDK for Firebase. It gives you elevated privileges to perform operations in the system that a normal user can not. The Admin SDK comes with a lot…
Firestore has been out of beta for some time now. But it still doesn’t support import or export functionality natively. This is a big downer for someone wanting to use the native functionality of the Firebase platform. Keep in mind that when…
In Firebase, you can get all the keys of an Object very easily. The thing that you should note is that a dictionary is just an Object in Firestore. All the custom Objects that you store in the Firestore behave just like the native Javascript objects. To…
In this tutorial, I’ll show you how you can protect your https cloud functions from unauthorized users in Firebase. By restricting unauthorized users, you can save resources and thus decrease the overall cost of your app. Setting Up The Project…
In this tutorial, we are going to create a Cloud Function which will return the server timestamp. Getting the Firebase Server Timestamp If you only care about the timestamp and not what format it comes in the result, this method…
The Cloud Firestore is an awesome platform for quickly prototyping your app ideas into reality, however, it certainly comes with some limitations. Currently, there is no way for you to enable uniqueness in field values in the whole database. There…