Frontend Starter for Gridsome & Firebase

What is inside

1. Ready to go firebase setup
2. Login and logout using Firebase authentication
3. Stores to keep everything in sync
4. Code examples to get you running
5. No style framework so you are free to choose

Gridsome

Static site builder, but does not limit to how dynamic it can be client side

Firebase

Cloud Firestore – Realtime nosql datastore

Firebase Authentication with FirebaseUI – Supports social and email login

Cloud Functions – Execute custom written functions

Other

Firesync – Keep Firestore subscriptions in sync with store. Checkout firesync.js to see the examples

Simple Store – Checkout how your clicks are being counted from the layout to where it is displayed

SCSS – Locate and add more mixins in the assets/sass directory, all files are automatically globally available

FlexGrid – For all your basic layout needs

Components

Auth Set – Set of login and logout components

Loading – A simple loading component that you can use anywhere

Getting Started

If you don't have gridsome installed run npm install --global @gridsome/cli

Frontend

1. Clone the repo or run gridsome create website https://github.com/u12206050/gridsome-firebase-starter.git to create the site in a folder called website
2. Copy the .env.example file and rename to .env.development
3. Update the .env.development with your firebase credentials
4. gridsome develop to start a local dev server at http://localhost:8080
5. Happy coding 🎉🙌

Firebase

1. Run npm install -g firebase-tools Firebase cli
2. Create your project folder mkdir my-project
3. Navigate to your project folder cd my-project
4. Run firebase login
5. Run firebase init

Deploying your site

Update your enviroment variables in a file called .env.production

1. Build your static site `gridsome build``
2. Move the dist folder into your project directory as public mv dist ../public
3. To preview your static site run firebase serve --only hosting
4. Deploy the site to Firebase hosting run firebase deploy --only hosting

Tip: You can move your frontend project into your project folder for easier development ex. my-project/website/ and then deploy with a single command within your website folder: npm run deploy

Functions

On every Vue component/view you have access to the following:

this.$db: Used for creating references and fetching data from Firestore. Same as firebase.firestore()

Example: `this.$db.collection('documents').get().then(snapshot => console.log(snapshot.size))`

this.$bind: Bind the results of a firestore reference to a property on the component

Example: `this.$bind(this.$db.collection('documents'), 'documents')`: Now on `this.documents` you can access the documents and have the automatically be updated.

this.$unbind: Unbinds the property so it no longer gets updates.

Example: `this.$unbind('documents', null?): The 2nd argument is optional. To leave the property untouched in its current state leave out the `null`

this.$functions: Most commonly used for creating requests to Firebase functions. Same s firebase.functions()

Example: `this.$functions.httpsCallable('getTime')().then(time => console.log(time))`

this.$auth: This is extended on the firebase.auth() object which besides the logout() and currentUser methods and function it also has:

`this.$auth.isLoggedIn`: If the user is logged in or not

`this.$auth.userId`: The user id of the currently logged in user

`this.$auth.roles`: An object of roles the user has been assigned

this.$firestore: Contains the useful field properties to use when writing to db.

`this.$firestore.GeoPoint`

`this.$firestore.Timestamp`

`this.$firestore.FieldValue`

Other

npm run build: Will build your project and test your bundle size according to the size limits set in package.json