software-is-crap

Example of how to build a relatively complex, auto-scaling application with very little bespoke code

setup

You need to have the following accounts set up:

• firebase
• cloudinary
• algolia
• segment

And fill out the triggered-from-end-user respective initialization commands in public/js/services.js like so:

// Cloudinary config
$.cloudinary.config({"api_key":"XXX","cloud_name":"XXX"});
var cloudinaryVars = {
	uploadPreset: "XXXX"
};


// Firebase config
var firebaseConfig = {
	apiKey: "XXX",
	authDomain: "XXX",
	databaseURL: "XXX"
};

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  analytics.load("XXXXXX");
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  }}();

//algolia
var algoliaClient = algoliasearch('XXX', 'XXX');
var algoliaIndex = client.initIndex('XXX');

Once you have those in place, you can install firebase and set credentials:

npm install -g firebase-tools
firebase login
firebase functions:config:set algolia.app="<YOUR-ALGOLIA-APP-ID>"
firebase functions:config:set algolia.key="<YOUR-ALGOLIA-APP-PUBLIC-KEY>"
firebase functions:config:set algolia.index="<YOUR-ALGOLIA-INDEX-NAME>"

And finally install necessary support packages:

npm install
bower install
cd functions
npm install

to deploy

• firebase deploy
• firebase deploy --only functions