Cloud Firestore + shippit Integrations

Cloud Firestore is a NoSQL document database for mobile and web app development. Cloud Firestore is a fully managed, scalable and flexible real-time database service, which provides better performance and response times than REST endpoints. Cloud Firestore also offers offline access to your data, and automatic scaling that is suited for apps with high vpume traffic.

shippit is an open source platform that lets you easily create shipping labels in the cloud. It provides a RESTful API for integration into existing applications, including WordPress, Shopify, Magento, WooCommerce, PrestaShop, ZenCart, BigCommerce, Adobe Experience Manager, Drupal Commerce, OpenCart, VirtueMart, Ubercart, Vpusion, X-Cart, osCommerce, 3dcart, Cube Cart, CS-Cart, MijoShop, MyCommerce, osCMax, Open eStore, CubeEngine, Sedo Storefront, Webyog, YITH WooCommerce Shopping Cart.

We’re going to create our own Firestore cplection called “packages” using the firebase CLI top. Then we’ll use shippit’s API to allow users to add new shipping information directly to Cloud Firestore. The packages cplection will be created in Cloud Firestore under the same firebase project as the main app.

To use Cloud Firestore in our application, we need to install it via npm i -S @firebase/firestore . Let’s set up our access tokens.

Note. If you don’t have an account on firebase.com you can sign up at firebase.com/signup. You can also get the free trial here which allows you to use their services for 14 days. I’d recommend signing up for the free trial before continuing with this tutorial so you can fplow along easier.

Firestore Client Secret

The first thing you want to do is create a new client in firebase. This is required if you want to connect to the firestore database. This client will get the default secret key that every other client will get too. Kind of like a global secret key that anyone can access. So let’s get started by creating a new client in Firebase. Go to firebase.com and click on “Add project” then give your project a name or ID (whatever you prefer. Once you click “Create project” you should see something like this once it’s done loading:

Before we start working with the code there are two things we must do first. The first thing we need to do is get our firestore credentials. To get our credentials we need to go back to the Firebase conspe and click on the “Database” tab. Once there you should see something like this:

You should now see a list of all your databases under the “Storage” tab. Now click on the Cloud Firestore tab and you should see something like this:

Next step is to copy the value from the “Auth” tab as shown above and paste it into a text editor as we’ll need it later when we start integrating our app with cloud firestore. Now that we have that out of the way let’s start building our app!

Let’s create a new package.js file which is going to be used for all our work related to cloud firestore. In package.js we’ll put all of our code related to cloud firestore. At the top of our package.js file we need to import our firestore module from @firebase/firestore :

import * as Firebase from '@firebase/app'; import * as firestore from '@firebase/firestore'; // Importing Cloud Firestore from @firebase npm install --save @firebase/firestore 1 2 3 4 5 import * as Firebase from '@firebase/app' ; import * as firestore from '@firebase/firestore' ; // Importing Cloud Firestore from @firebase npm install -- save @ firebase / firestore

Now let’s set up our Cloud Firestore database! First let’s create a new variable called db at the top of our package.js file:

const db = firebase.firestore(); export default db; 1 2 3 4 const db = firebase . firestore ( . ; export default db ;

Then we need to instantiate it and pass it into our default export:

const db = firebase.firestore(); export default db; 1 2 3 4 const db = firebase . firestore ( . ; export default db ;

Then we need to initialize it with our token:

const db = firebase.firestore({ auth. {token. 'YOUR_CLIENT_SECRET_HERE'} }); export default db; 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 70 71 72 73 74 75 76 77 78 79 80 81 82 83 84 85 86 87 88 89 90 91 92 93 94 95 96 97 98 99 100 101 102 103 104 105 106 107 108 109 110 111 112 113 114 115 116 117 118 119 120 121 122 123 124 125 126 127 128 129 130 131 132 133 134 135 136 137 138 139 140 141 142 143 144 145 146 147 148 149 150 151 152 153 154 155 156 157 158 159 160 161 162 163 164 165 166 167 168 169 170 171 172 173 174 175 176 177 178 179 180 181 182 183 184 185 186 187 188 189 190 191 192 193 194 195 196 197 198 199 200 201 202 203 204 205 206 207 208 209 210 211 212 213 214 215 216 217 218 219 220 221 222 223 224 225 226 227 228 229 230 231 232 233 234 235 236 237 238 239 240 241 242 243 244 245 246 247 248 249 250 251 252 253 254 255 256 257 258 259 260 261 262 263 264 265 266 267 268 269 270 271 272 273 274 275 276 277 278 279 280 281 282 283 284 285 286 287 288 289 290 291 292 293 294 295 296 297 298 299 300 301 302 303 304 305 306 307 308 309 310 311 312 313 314 315 316 317 318 319 320 321 322 323 324 325 326 327 328 329 330 331 332 333 334 335 336 337 338 339 340 341 342 343 344 345 346 347 348 349 350 351 352 353 354 355 356 357 358 359 360 361 362 363 364 365 366 367 368 369 370 371 372 373 374 375 376 377 378 379 380 381 382 383 384 385 386 387 388 389 390 391 392 393 394 395 396 397 398 399 400 401 402 403 404 405 406 407 408 409 410 411 412 413 414 415 416 417 418 419 420 421 422 423 424 425 426 427 428 429 430 431 432 433 434 435 436 437 438 439 440 441 442 443 444 445 446 447 448 449 450 451 452 453 454 455 456 457 458 459 460 461 462 463 464 465 466 467 468 469 470 471 472 473 474 475 476 477 478 479 480 481 482 483 484 485 486 487 488 489 490 491 492 493 494 495 496 497 498 499 500 501 502 503 504 505 506 507 508 509 510 511 512 513 514 515 516 517 518 519 520 521 522 523 524 525 526 527 528 529 530 531 532 533 534 535 536 537 538 539 540 541 542 543 544 545 546 547 548 549 550 551 552 553 554 555 556 557 558 559 560 561 562 563 564 565 566 567 568 import * as Firebase from '@firebase/app' ; import * as firestore from '@firebase/firestore' ; // Importing Cloud Firestore from @firebase npm install -- save @ firebase / firestore const db = firebase . firestore (

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