C&T Firebase

When initializing a new instance of the C&T Firebase project, make sure that the functions/config/admins.js file contains the emails of administrators you want to initialize.

Prerequisites

1. Install Firebase CLI

   npm install -g firebase-tools

2. Login to Firebase CLI

   firebase login

3. Inside root of repo, set Firebase CLI to use appropriate project:

   firebase use <project id>

   Eg. For current staging environment, use candt-admin-dev as project id

Development

Local environment setup:

1. Get Google Application Credentials JSON file and set GOOGLE_APPLICATION_CREDENTIALS path variable to point to file (https://cloud.google.com/docs/authentication/getting-started)

   GOOGLE_APPLICATION_CREDENTIALS="<path to json file>.json"

2. Configure local enviornment config variables inside .runtimeconfig.json file in root of repo

   To export current config from Firebase, run in root of repo: firebase functions:config:get > .runtimeconfig.json

3. Run npm install inside of functions directory

4. From root directory, run firebase emulators:start

Deployment

1. Configure remote env vars (only if updates are required)

   • Get latest remote env vars
     firebase functions:config:get > env.json
   • remove outer env object (field and brackets)
   • edit as required
   • reset env vars
     firebase functions:config:unset env && firebase functions:config:set env="$(cat env.json)"
     (note the double quotes around the value)

2. From the root of the repo, run the following command to deploy to current project: firebase deploy --only functions

Resources

• Firebase CLI cheatsheet
• Adding environment variables to firebase: https://firebase.google.com/docs/functions/config-env
• Getting Google Application Credentials file: https://cloud.google.com/docs/authentication/getting-started