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Express Server on Cloud Functions for Firebase

Host an Express Server in Cloud Functions for Firebase.

Here is the accompanying Medium Post.

TLDR;

Host your Express Server on Cloud Functions enabling a low-cost, auto-scaling web server leveraging Firebase's sweet developer experience.

Cloud Functions uses Express request and response objects allowing us to pass an Express app directly into the function.

File of interest:

• functions/index.js

Installation

git clone https://github.com/jthegedus/firebase-functions-express-example
cd firebase-functions-express-example
yarn install

Local Development

yarn serve

This will serve the Cloud Functions locally using the Firebase emulator. Interestingly, the trailing / is not an issue when hosted locally.

Deploy to Firebase

yarn deploy

N.B.: Replace <project-name> in the .firebaserc to connect the project to your Firebase project.

A note on Code Compatibility

Everything was tested on Ubuntu 16.04 & Windows 10 with Bash on Ubuntu on Windows. If you wish for Windows native support please submit an issue so we can work on a Windows branch. Please report any macOS errors as I do not have access to a device to test. My development environment can be found here.