Serverless Question and Answer Web Application

Yes. There is still exist a server underneath. FireQA only supports Firebase.

DEMO!

Required Envrionments/Tools/Languages (or whatever it is called)

• NodeJS
• NPM
• firebase-cli

Required Firebase Services

• Authentication
• Firestore
• Hosting
• Functions

Setting up

Firebase Services

1. Create a new Firebase Project
2. Enable Google Authentication
3. Enable Firestore

Default Documents

1. Create a collection: 'cache'
2. Create a document: 'latest'
3. Create a empty array field: 'questions'

In the final release, this will be automated //TODO

Setting Local Project

1. Clone the repo
2. CD into the root directory
3. firebase init
4. y
5. Select (spacebar) 'Firestore', 'Functions' and 'Hosting'
6. Enter
7. Choose 'Use an existing project'
8. Select the desired Firebase Project

Firestore Setup

Default file names but do not overwrite existing content.

Functions Setup

Language: JavaScript Default file names but do not overwrite existing content. Install dependencies for npm now. 'build' as public directory. Configure as single-page app.

For the rest you may go with your own preference.

Enable Web App

1. On Project Overview, click on the Web icon.
2. Register an app (e.g. fireqa-web).
3. Copy and paste the Firebase Config object into src/firebase.js.

Bulding App

1. On the root directory, run npm install
2. On the same directory, run npm run build

Deploying the App

1. On the same directory, run firebase deploy
2. Follow the on-screen instruction to visit your Q&A site.

npm run build

(For the Firestore Security mode, choose the default)