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Firebase Environments

Last updated: October 21st, 2019.

At the time of writing this gist (January 4th, 2017), I was unable to find true sandboxing to separate development and production environments for a Firebase project. The closest we can get is to create two separate Firebase projects -- one for development and one for production.

Pros

• Complete separation and isolation of all Firebase features.
• Freedom to experiment without risking the corruption of production data.

Cons

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tl;dr

1. Download and install Node.js
2. Download and extract the Sample Project
3. In a Terminal window, navigate to the extracted folder
4. Run npm install
5. Run the app

Introduction

This guide is meant to be a very quick setup for a Node.js REST API. It will include links to each component if you'd like to read more.

Note that I use macOS, so the commands may be slightly different on a non-Unix machine.