The idea behind this book is to help developers create real-time serverless applications really faster with React and Firebase. We wrote this book for the developers who want to create Minimum Viable Product (MVP) using Firebase to validate a business idea. This book is designed to provide practical knowledge to developers who have basic to intermediate knowledge of HTML, CSS, React, and JavaScript and want to learn more about React, Redux, and Firebase integration. This book is also aimed at developers who don't want to waste their time searching hundreds of tutorials of React, Redux, and Firebase and have everything in one place with real-life examples to get productive quickly. This book is for anyone interested in learning only Firebase.

Lastly, if you want to develop serverless apps and want to know end to end, from designing to hosting, with step-by-step instructions, this book is for you.

Chapter 1, Getting Started with Firebase and React, introduces the ReactJS and Firebase features and teaches what you can do with them. It gives a brief detail about setting up a Firebase account and create the demo project with JavaScript.

Chapter 2, Integrate React App with Firebase, looks at setting up the React environment and takes a quick look at the JSX and React component methods. It also goes into creating form components in React using JSX and Firebase Realtime Database for our helpdesk application.

Chapter 3, Authentication with Firebase, focuses on starting to flesh out the helpdesk application set up in Chapter 2, Integrate React App with Firebase, by adding a Firebase Authentication to secure the application with login component.

Chapter 4, Connecting React to Redux and Firebase, explores Redux in detail and looks at how and when you need to use Redux in our React app. It will also show you how you can integrate all three—React, Redux, and Firebase—with a sample seat booking application.

Chapter 5, User Profile and Access Management, shows you how you can use Firebase Admin SDK, which provides a user management API to read and write Realtime Database data with full admin privileges by creating application admin page.

Chapter 6, Firebase Security and Rules, demonstrates how you can secure our database by Firebase Realtime database rules, and it briefly looks at the common database security risks and the checklist to prevent such threats.

Chapter 7, Using Firebase Cloud messaging and Cloud functions with React, helps us to send free messages across different platforms: Android, iOS, and web in Realtime. It takes you through how you can run your custom application logic without a server.

Chapter 8, Firebase Cloud Storage, covers how you can integrate Firebase cloud storage into your application and see the features and how you can use it.

Chapter 9, Best Practices, teaches the dos and don'ts when you are creating a web application with react, Firebase, and redux.

You should have basic programming experience with React, HTML, CSS, and JavaScript to read this book profitably. It is assumed that you know already how Node Package Manager (npm) works to install any dependencies, and you have a basic idea about ES6 Syntax.

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