Friendly Pix Web

The Friendly Pix frontend is built using JavaScript, Firebase and jQuery.

Friendly Pix is written in ES2017 using Modules so for wide browser support the code is packed and transpiled to ES5 using Webpack.

The Auth flow is using Firebase-UI.

Javascript Runtime dependencies as well as Build and deploy dependecies are managed using npm.

Server-side micro-services are built on Cloud Functions for Firebase.

1. In a console run npm install to install all Build/Deploy tools dependencies.
2. Create a Firebase project using the Firebase Console.
3. Visit the Storage section and enable storage by clicking the Getting Started button.
4. Enable Google as a Sign in provider in Firebase Console > Authentication > Sign in Method tab.
5. In a console run firebase use --add and, when prompted, select the Firebase Project you have just created. This will make sure the Firebase CLI is configured to use your particular project.
6. [Optional] To enable the automatic inapropriate image blurring, Enable the Cloud Vision API on your project and enable Billing.
7. [Optional] To enable email notifications for flagged content, set your Mailgun API credentials using:

    firebase functions:config:set mailgun.domain=friendly-pix.com mailgun.key=key-XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
   

8. [Optional] To enable IP-based geolocation filters, Enable the Geolocation API and the Geocoding API on your project.

You can start a local development server by running:

npm run serve

This will start firebase serve and make sure your Javascript files are transpiled automatically to ES5.

Then open http://localhost:5000

Note 1: On new projects, the Realtime Database and Cloud Storage come with default Security rules that prevent all read and writes. You'll need to deploy the security rules and Cloud Functions once first. For this run: firebase deploy --only database,storage

Note 2: All Cloud Functions cannot yet be ran locally. Deploy them once first if you want these features active (such as image and text moderation). For this run: firebase deploy --only functions

To deploy the app run:

firebase deploy

Before deploying this will automatically install all runtime dependencies, transpile the Javascript code to ES5 and install Cloud Functions dependencies. Then this deploys a new version of your code that will be served from https://<PROJECT_ID>.firebaseapp.com

To make a user an admin - allowing him to delete any posts - manually add an entry to /admins/$index/email: admin@email.com. For instance /admins/1/email: bob@gmail.com.

The Android and iOS versions of FriendlyPix need the Cloud Functions, the Realtime Database rules and the Cloud Storage rules to be deployed to work properly. To deploy these run:

firebase deploy --only functions,database,storage