firebase: init #645
firebase: init #645
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Many thanks for starting a "Firebase in Gitpod" guide!
I think this is a good start, but it would need a bit more content before it can be merged (e.g. "How to install Firebase in Gitpod?" -- see in-line comment)
Also, adding "Firebase" in a menu with mostly programming languages doesn't make sense. Maybe add a dedicated "Tools" sub-menu?
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However, since none of the other guides have a header, maybe having one here isn't necessary.
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| Firebase is a platform owned by Google which is used to develop mobile and web applications | ||
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Please explain what this button does, e.g. by adding an intro sentence like:
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| To experience Firebase in Gitpod, we have created a proof-of-concept snapshot that you can launch in one click: | |
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| ### Configuring the access token |
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Before this section, I think it would be cool to explain how one can install Firebase in Gitpod.
E.g. assume that the reader is relatively new to Gitpod -- the Scala section is a great example of how to achieve this: https://www.gitpod.io/docs/languages/scala/#installing-scala
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|  is as of 18/05/2020 using `iframe` to display pages in it's preview which is not allowed on some Google websites (https://github.com/gitpod-io/gitpod/issues/1528) and so firebase on gitpod requires the end-user to be logged-in using a hyperlink generated from `firebase login --no-localhost` and it's token stored as environmental variable `FIREBASE_TOKEN` in https://gitpod.io/settings to avoid parsing `firebase subcommand --token YOUR_TOKEN` for every command. |
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Theia is not really an editor, but a full IDE:
|  is as of 18/05/2020 using `iframe` to display pages in it's preview which is not allowed on some Google websites (https://github.com/gitpod-io/gitpod/issues/1528) and so firebase on gitpod requires the end-user to be logged-in using a hyperlink generated from `firebase login --no-localhost` and it's token stored as environmental variable `FIREBASE_TOKEN` in https://gitpod.io/settings to avoid parsing `firebase subcommand --token YOUR_TOKEN` for every command. | |
|  is as of 18/05/2020 using `iframe` to display pages in its preview which is not allowed on some Google websites (https://github.com/gitpod-io/gitpod/issues/1528) and so Firebase on Gitpod requires the end-user to log in using a hyperlink generated from `firebase login --no-localhost` and its token stored as environmental variable `FIREBASE_TOKEN` in https://gitpod.io/settings/ to avoid passing `--token YOUR_TOKEN` for every `firebase` command. |
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This contribution raises interesting questions about the "Languages & Frameworks" section.
- Initially, the section was meant to indeed provide how-to guides for common languages and frameworks.
- When we had covered most languages, and started adding frameworks, it was confusing to mix frameworks with languages (e.g. a list like "C++, Ruby, Java, Pandas" doesn't make sense, because you're mixing languages and non-languages). So we decided to merge the frameworks into their specific language page (i.e. merge "Pandas" into the "Python" guide)
- However, the "Firebase" framework is not strongly related to one particular language, is it?
I still find it confusing to mix frameworks with languages, but we also can't merge Firebase into an existing language guide.
Maybe we should indeed have separate "Languages" and "Frameworks" sub-menus? Also, Firebase isn't even a "framework". Maybe it's more like a "tool", or "technology"? (Same goes for databases and such). So maybe let's have "Languages" and "Tools" sub-menus?
Relevant: https://github.com/TypeFox/gitpodify/issues/421#issuecomment-630196024
Relevant: firebase/quickstart-js#418
Relevant: https://github.com/gitpod-io/firebase-on-gitpod
Relevant: gitpod-io/gitpod#1528
Relevant: https://github.com/andriawan24/quickstart-js/pull/1