Firebase IDE

[Alan Wells]

I would like to have a Firebase IDE that could create and deploy a Firebase app,

without the need of downloading Node.js and using the Firebase tools CLI.

I'd start with an IDE that could deploy a Firebase web app.

I believe that this might be possible using the Google Cloud Resource Manager REST API,

the Firebase Hosting REST API, and the Firebase Admin SDK.

I've outlined the steps that I think could make it happen.

I want this tool/capability, so that I could offer users a way to implement a Firebase app without me needing to install it for them.

So, I'm looking for an easy way for users/clients to create and deploy a Firebase app themselves.

I would provide them with the files, and they would use a Firebase IDE to create and deploy the app.

I'm interested in feedback.

Would this interest you?

[Sam Stern]

Hi Alan,

Have you seen Stackblitz (https://stackblitz.com/)? Through their Firebase integration you can code a web app and deploy it to Firebase Hosting all without leaving your browser tab. It's pretty cool!

- Sam

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[Alan Wells]

Thank you for the info.

I didn't know about Stackblitz.

I'm looking at Stackblitz and it's great.

I loaded the Vue.js demo app and deployed it to my Firebase hosting account.

I guess what a client would do is to get a GitHub account, and then I'd need to share the Stackblitz repo with the user,

and they would deploy it.

[Tracy Hall]

I currently develop both Firebase web apps (JS, React, Redux, Firestore, Auth, Storage) and Functions (JS, admin SDK) using CodeSandbox - the Web App is quite straight-forward; the Functions are a tad... round-a-bout, but functional (runs in container, using CLI to run emulators, deploy, etc etc)

For the Web-App, the entire build & Debug is in the browser, as well as deploy to Netlify and Vercel.  There *are* some limitations running Firestore in this environment - for example, I find WriteBatch operations can take some 20 to 30 seconds, and it *look* like they have to re-try 3 or 4 times - but it gets the job done.  The deploys to Netlify are quite fast and do *not* show that limitation.  Because of the way Sandboxes are created from GitHub, the Domain name can change occasionally, so you have to make Authorized Domain changes over on the console - *and* the domain is different when running the session in the same tab (similar to VSCode) or in a separate tab, so you have to create a couple "variants" of the domain name.

BUT I have not installed Node locally for either WebApp or Function development, and I can fire up my full development environment from anywhere (PC, Mac and Chromebook, for example).