FireAdmin

A minimalistic headless CMS around Angular & Firebase.

Demo

FireAdmin Demo

Features

• Simple & minimalistic
• Customizable
• Responsive
• Internationalization ready
• Easy/automated updates (via npm)

ToDo

• Menus handler
• Password reset feature
• Posts comments
• Posts custom fields

Installation

npm install --save ng-fire-admin

Usage

It's recommended to use a multi-project workspace with basically 2 main applications (one for the frontend part & the other for the backend) to avoid any potential conflicts, then apply the following changes on your backend app:

Multi-project creation steps

  ng new my-workspace --createApplication="false"
  cd my-workspace
  ng generate application backend --defaults --routing=true
  // you can add the frontend app the same way
  npm install --save ng-fire-admin

1. Add your firebase configuration in environment.ts:

  export const environment = {
    production: false,
+   firebase: {
+     apiKey: "<API_KEY>",
+     authDomain: "<PROJECT_ID>.firebaseapp.com",
+     databaseURL: "https://<DATABASE_NAME>.firebaseio.com",
+     projectId: "<PROJECT_ID>",
+     storageBucket: "<BUCKET>.appspot.com",
+     messagingSenderId: "<SENDER_ID>",
+     appId: "<APP_ID>"
+   }
  };

2. Register the FireAdminModule in a module, for example app module:

  import { BrowserModule } from '@angular/platform-browser';
  import { NgModule } from '@angular/core';

  import { AppRoutingModule } from './app-routing.module';
  import { AppComponent } from './app.component';
+ import { FireAdminModule } from 'ng-fire-admin';
+ import { environment } from '../environments/environment';

  @NgModule({
    declarations: [AppComponent],
    imports: [
      BrowserModule,
      AppRoutingModule,
+     FireAdminModule.initialize(environment.firebase)
    ],
    providers: [],
    bootstrap: [AppComponent]
  })
  export class AppModule {}

3. Setup a simple routing as below:

  import { NgModule } from '@angular/core';
  import { Routes, RouterModule } from '@angular/router';

  const routes: Routes = [
+   {
+     path: 'admin',
+     loadChildren: () => import('ng-fire-admin').then(m => m.FireAdminModule)
+   },
+   {
+     path: '**',
+     redirectTo: 'admin'
+   }
  ];

  @NgModule({
    imports: [RouterModule.forRoot(routes)],
    exports: [RouterModule]
  })
  export class AppRoutingModule { }

4. Edit your main component template (generally app.component.html) & keep only the <router-outlet></router-outlet> line:

+ <router-outlet></router-outlet>

5. Add the following styles & scripts entries to angular.json:

  "assets": [
    "projects/backend/src/favicon.ico",
    "projects/backend/src/assets"
  ],
  "styles": [
    "projects/backend/src/styles.css",
+   "node_modules/@fortawesome/fontawesome-free/css/all.min.css",
+   "node_modules/material-icons-font/material-icons-font.css",
+   "node_modules/bootstrap/dist/css/bootstrap.min.css",
+   "node_modules/datatables.net-responsive-dt/css/responsive.dataTables.min.css",
+   "node_modules/quill/dist/quill.snow.css"
  ],
  "scripts": [
+   "node_modules/jquery/dist/jquery.min.js",
+   "node_modules/popper.js/dist/umd/popper.min.js",
+   "node_modules/bootstrap/dist/js/bootstrap.min.js",
+   "node_modules/datatables.net/js/jquery.dataTables.min.js",
+   "node_modules/datatables.net-responsive-dt/js/responsive.dataTables.min.js",
+   "node_modules/chart.js/dist/Chart.min.js",
+   "node_modules/shards-ui/dist/js/shards.min.js",
+   "node_modules/quill/dist/quill.min.js"
  ]

6. You may also need to add the following lines to polyfills.ts:

  // Add global to window, assigning the value of window itself.
+ (window as any).global = window;

7. In order to protect your database & storage data, you must set the following rules in your firebase console:

How to setup your firebase project?

• Start by adding a new project in your firebase console.

• Enable Authentication by email & password.

• Add a database to your project.

• Add a storage.

Firestore Database rules:

rules_version = '2';
service cloud.firestore {
  match /databases/{database}/documents {
    match /{collection}/{document}/{path=**} {
      allow read: if canRead(collection, document);
      allow write: if canWrite(collection, document);
    }
    function canRead(collection, document) {
      return isAccessible(collection, document) || isAdmin();
    }
    function canWrite(collection, document) {
      return registrationEnabled(collection) || isAdmin() || (
        isEditor() && collection != 'config' && isAccessible(collection, document)
      );
    }
    function isAccessible(collection, document) {
      return collection != 'users' || isOwner(document);
    }
    function isSignedIn() {
      return request.auth != null;
    }
    function hasRole(role) {
      return isSignedIn() && get(/databases/$(database)/documents/users/$(request.auth.uid)).data.role == role;
    }
    function isAdmin() {
      return hasRole('admin');
    }
    function isEditor() {
      return hasRole('editor');
    }
    function isOwner(ownerId) {
      return isSignedIn() && request.auth.uid == ownerId;
    }
    function registrationEnabled(collection) {
      return collection == 'users' && (
        !exists(/databases/$(database)/documents/config/registration) ||
        get(/databases/$(database)/documents/config/registration).data.enabled
      );
    }
  }
}

More basic database rules? (not recommended)

  rules_version = '2';
  service cloud.firestore {
    match /databases/{database}/documents {
      match /{collection}/{document=**} {
        allow read: if collection != 'users' || request.auth != null;
        allow write: if request.auth != null;
      }
    }
  }

Storage rules:

rules_version = '2';
service firebase.storage {
  match /b/{bucket}/o {
    match /{allPaths=**} {
      allow read;
      allow write: if request.auth != null;
    }
  }
}

That's it 🎉, enjoy your ready to use backend app!

Troubleshoot

In case you encounter one of the following errors while trying to serve or build your app:

Cannot find type definition file for 'datatables.net'.
Cannot find namespace 'DataTables'.

Just install the following package:

npm install --save-dev @types/datatables.net

Build

Run ng build to build the project. The build artifacts will be stored in the dist/ directory.

Publishing

After building your library with ng build, go to the dist folder cd dist/fire-admin and run npm publish.

Credits

Firebase icon by Icons8.

License

This project is licensed under the MIT license.