Nowadays Google Firebase is my most favorite application. This is offering great web solutions like hosting, authentication, storage and database in a simple way. This article explains how to upload images(supports video) into Firebase storage with Ionic and Angular applications. This covers the user authentication part to protect storage uploads and improving default Firebase security rules. Take a look at the quick demo and try to upload under 1 mb JPEG or PNG.

Few days back I posted an article about how to implement restful apis using the Node Express and MySql. In this post I am going to discuss deploying NodeJS RESTful apis with Express framework to the Firebase functions. This is helpful when you deal with external endpoints which need secret keys. Google Firebase functions as an alternate product for Amazon Lambda, and Google Firebase is offering Storage and Real-time databases.

Are you working with front-end applications like Angular, React, Vue etc. Doing the production deployment is the most boring part. Because we need to do many manual steps to perform like npm install, ng test, build etc. This post will explain to how to automate all of these steps with CircleCI pipeline. Just push you changes to GitHub repository, and CircleCi take care everything.

How do you increase the site’s traffic? E-commerce businesses’ main goal is to keep engage their existed subscribers and get the new visitors. There are many ways to grow site’s traffic and customer engagement - by sending email notifications, SMS alerts, through social media and do web push notifications. Today, we are going to see how push notifications work for web browsers. These are the notifications that are sent to the users through desktop and mobile browsers. These notifications are delivered on a user’s desktop or mobile browser — regardless of whether or not the user is on the website. These notifications allow users to get timely updates from sites they love and allow developers to effectively re-engage them with relevant content to increase site’s traffic. Let’s start how this works.

There is a lot of fun in building an AngularJS application and after you finish the application, for others to see your application you will need to deploy the project on some web server such as NodeJS, Amazon AWS, Heroku,etc,. But, this requires a long procedure for the deployment and sometimes it can even be expensive. Google provides free Firebase for deploying AngularJS projects. Firebase Hosting provides fast and secure static hosting for your web app. This Hosting also provides social login authentication and gives your project a subdomain for deploying. for Facebook, Google and Twitter.