Building Serverless RESTful Web APIs with Cloud Functions, Firestore, Express and JavaScript ES6

You will need a Firebase project and firebase tools cli

npm install -g firebase-tools

Clone this repository

git clone git@github.com:mayurc137/serverless-rest-api-boilerplate.git .

Updating firebase project id

You need to change the firebase project name in .firebaserc file.

{
  "projects": {
    "default": "YOUR-FIREBASE-PROJECT-ID"
  }
}

After that, you can log in to firebase in the terminal

firebase login

Deploy to firebase

To deploy functions to firebase

firebase deploy

Read values from the request

Content Type\n Request Body\n Behavior\n

application/json	
'{"name":"John"}'	
request.body.name equals 'John'

application/octet-stream	
'my text'	
request.body equals '6d792074657874' (the raw bytes of the request; see the Node.js Buffer documentation)

text/plain	
'my text'	
request.body equals 'my text'

application/x-www-form-urlencoded	
'name=John'	
request.body.name equals 'John'

Adding Middleware

Add middleware to authenticate requests or perform additional tasks

let myMiddleware = (req, res, next) => {
    //authentication code goes here
    next();
}

app.use(myMiddleware);

Building multiple CRUD interfaces:

GET /

app.get('/', (req, res) => {
    let response = Endpoints.list();
    res.send(response);
});

GET /:id

app.get('/:id', (req, res) => {
    let id = req.params.id;
    let response = Endpoints.getById(id);
    res.send(response);
});

POST /

app.post('/', (req, res) => {
    let response = Endpoints.create();
    res.send(response);
});

PUT /:id

app.put('/:id', (req, res) => {
    let id = req.params.id;
    let body = req.body;
    let response = Endpoints.update(id, body);
    res.send(response);
});

DELETE /:id

app.delete('/:id', (req, res) => {
    let id = req.params.id;
    let response = Endpoints.delete(id);
    res.send(response);
});