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Firebase Cookbook

You're reading from Firebase Cookbook

Product type Book

Published in Nov 2017

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781788296335

Pages 288 pages

Edition 1st Edition

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Server Side Web Development

Author (1):

Houssem Yahiaoui

Table of Contents (15) Chapters

Preface

1. Firebase - Getting Started

2. Firebase Real-Time Database

3. File Management with Firebase Storage

4. Firebase Authentication

5. Securing Application Flow with Firebase Rules

6. Progressive Applications Powered by Firebase

7. Firebase Admin SDK

8. Extend Firebase with Cloud Functions

9. We’re Done, Let’s Deploy

10. Integrating Firebase with NativeScript

11. Integrating Firebase with Android/iOS Natively

12. Hack Application's Growth

13. Adding Analytics and Maximizing Earnings

14. Firebase Cloud FireStore

Implementing file serving and downloading

In the previous recipe, we discussed how we could upload files to the Storage bucket. In this part of the chapter, we're going to see how we can deliver and download our files directly from the Storage bucket.

How to do it...

Typically, we don't have a way to showcase all the files we have within our bucket. We do have files and folders in Firebase; however there's no API to showcase folders, but only to showcase files.

Bear in mind that the notion of folders doesn't have a meaning within the platform. This means that there's nothing called a folder within the API or logic--it's just a basic path reference to our files.

Thus, we need to have our own custom...

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Authors (1)

Houssem Yahiaoui

Houssem Yahiaoui is a Telerik Developer Expert, Google Developer Group Lead, Meetup organizer, Conference Speaker, and Technical blogger among a few things. He has been a developer since the age of 14 and Firebase lover since day one. He's also a passionate JavaScript developer and strongly believes that JavaScript should fix the World's hanger problem.

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