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…
It’s very easy to simply install the cors middleware to handle all the CORS stuff while using Node.js as your backend. This, however, leaves you with a very superficial understanding of how the Cross-Origin Resource Sharing mechanism works. In this article, we…
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…
Over the years, I have set up hundreds of WordPress installations. But every time I do that, I have to look around for guides and tips for making WordPress usable and secure. That takes up a lot of my time…