Adding persistent storage to your new React project can be a pain: enter Firebase. Firebase is a Google platform that allows you to develop apps faster. It provides many different built-in services such as authentication, analytics, hosting and, since that’s what this article about, a realtime database.
In order to get a database set up with a React app you need to do a few things. First things first - add firebase to your package.json with yarn add firebase or npm install --save firebase.
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When deploying my first Rails/JS (with Devise and Google’s OAuth2) app to Heroku I ran into a few speedbumps. Now, admittedly a few of these are rookie mistakes and I might have not run into them had I know more at the time but maybe my mistakes can still help out somone else in the future.
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I had been a little fuzzy on how to explain webpack, so I did some more research to get a clearer picture. Essentially this is what webpack does: It takes modules with dependencies and turns those into static assets. Said another way, webpack takes all of our assets and dependencies and creates a bundle that is ready for production. Awesome!
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Building a React & Redux app was a lot more challenging than I had expected. Before using React, I had been mostly working in Ruby (on Rails) and a little in JavaScript. Creating a simple CRUD app is what Rails is all about and the framework makes it so easy; I figured this wouldn’t be much of a challenge in React either…
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Adding dynamic behavior to your Rails application with JavaScript is a nice way to make it more user friendly and intuitive to use. Changing page content without reloading and executing network requests in the background are my personal favorites.
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