Starter Project For Building Admin Dashboards For Firebase Apps

Easily create admin dashboards for your Firebase powered apps. For example, you can create a merchant dashboard for uploading items on an e-commerce site which uses Firebase as the backend.

Project Structure

• dashboard: contains a react based app which will be served using Firebase hosting. It hits a Firebase cloud function api defined inside functions folder.
• functions: contains an api cloud function which is basically an Express based API for your app. Your write all your protected business logic here.

Setup

1. Put your Firebase project's name in .firebaserc.

2. Set a secret key for JWT token on Firebase.

   firebase functions:config:set auth.secret="<YOUR_SECRET>"
   

3. Cd to functions folder and run

   yarn install
   

4. For every admin user, run the npm script

   yarn run passwdgen <username> <password>
   

   and follow further instructions.

5. Cd to dashboard folder and run

   yarn install
   

6. In dashboard/src/globals.js file, set your local and production cloud functions endpoints in API_URL. To get these values, run:

   for local

   firebase serve --only functions
   

   for production

   firebase deploy
   

Debugging

1. Download your project's service account key .json file and export it in your environment variable.

   set GOOGLE_APPLICATION_CREDENTIALS=<path_to_json_file>/serviceAccountKey.json
   

2. Get a copy of Firebase environment variables set on the server, for running the functions locally. From functions folder, run

   firebase functions:config:get > .runtimeconfig.json
   

3. Run the functions locally

   firebase serve --only functions
   

4. Cd to dashboard folder and run

   yarn start
   

Deploying

Run deploy.sh.

Help

Please open a new issue in case you are facing some problem or write to me at [email protected].