Secure Chat Firebase Backend

This is the repo of firebase backend of SecureChat

Installation

• Go to firebase console and create a new project or use an existing one
• Go to Project Settings (click on settings icon next to Project Overview)
• On the General Tab save the Web API Key
  • This will be needed to configure the mobile app
• Go to Service Accounts tab
  • On Firebase Admin SDK click Generate new private key
  • Open the downloaded file and copy everything inside and paste it to /functions/ServiceAccountKey.json file
• Create a Realtime Database
  • Navigate to Database on the left sidebar
  • Scroll down to Realtime Database and click on Create Database (start in locked mode)
• Save the database url
  • Copy the database url link, it should look something like https://[project-name].firebaseio.com/
  • Paste this url at /functions/index.js file at databaseURL
  • This will also be needed to configure the mobile app later
• Allow reading on the database
  • Navigate to rules and make read = true and click Publish

{
    "rules": {
        ".read": true,
        ".write": false
    }
}

• Now we just need to deploy this repo to firebase cloud functions

npm install -g firebase-tools # install firebase-tools if you haven't
firebase init 
# follow the instructions, 
# choose firebase cloud functions, 
# choose your newly created existing project, 
# press enter on everything else
firebase depoy # after init has finished just deploy to cloud functions in the end

• Keep track of the firebase functions urls
  • There should be 4:
    • https://[some-location-project-name].cloudfunctions.net/getUserId
    • https://[some-location-project-name].cloudfunctions.net/sendMessage
    • https://[some-location-project-name].cloudfunctions.net/deleteMessage
    • https://[some-location-project-name].cloudfunctions.net/getRandomAvatar
  • Keep track of the base url https://[some-location-project-name].cloudfunctions.net
    • You will need it when configuring the mobile app later