react-admin-firebase

A firebase data provider for the React-Admin framework. It maps collections from the Firebase database (Firestore) to your react-admin application. It's an npm package!

Features

• Firestore Dataprovider (details below)
• Firebase AuthProvider (email, password)
• Firebase storage upload functionality

Pull requests welcome!!

Firestore Dataprovider Features

• Dynamic caching of resources
• All methods implemented; (GET, POST, GET_LIST ect...)
• Filtering, sorting etc...
• Realtime updates, using ra-realtime
  • Optional watch collection array or dontwatch collection array
• Ability to manage sub collections through app configuration
• Ability to use externally initialized firebaseApp instance
• Override firestore random id by using "id" as a field in the Create part of the resource
• Upload to the firebase storage bucket using the standard field

Get Started

yarn add react-admin-firebase

or

npm install --save react-admin-firebase

Demos Basic

A simple example based on the React Admin Tutorial.

• Demo Project (javascript)
• Demo Project (typescript)

Prerequisits

• Create a posts collection in the firebase firestore database
• Get config credentials using the dashboard

Options

import {
  FirebaseAuthProvider,
  FirebaseDataProvider,
  FirebaseRealTimeSaga
} from 'react-admin-firebase';

const config = {
  apiKey: "aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa",
  authDomain: "aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa",
  databaseURL: "aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa",
  projectId: "aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa",
  storageBucket: "aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa",
  messagingSenderId: "aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa",
};

// All options are optional
const options = {
  // Use a different root document to set your resource collections, by default it uses the root collections of firestore
  rootRef: 'root-collection/some-doc';
  // Your own, previously initialized firebase app instance
  app: firebaseAppInstance;
  // Enable logging of react-admin-firebase
  logging: true;
  // Resources to watch for realtime updates, will implicitly watch all resources by default, if not set.
  watch: ['posts'];
  // Resources you explicitly dont want realtime updates for
  dontwatch: ['comments'];
}

const dataProvider = FirebaseDataProvider(config, options);
const authProvider = FirebaseAuthProvider(config, options);
const firebaseRealtime = FirebaseRealTimeSaga(dataProvider, options);

Data Provider

import * as React from 'react';
import { Admin, Resource } from 'react-admin';

import { PostList, PostShow, PostCreate, PostEdit } from "./posts";
import {
  FirebaseAuthProvider,
  FirebaseDataProvider,
  FirebaseRealTimeSaga
} from 'react-admin-firebase';

const config = {
  apiKey: "aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa",
  authDomain: "aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa",
  databaseURL: "aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa",
  projectId: "aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa",
  storageBucket: "aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa",
  messagingSenderId: "aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa",
};

const options = {};

const dataProvider = FirebaseDataProvider(config, options);
...
      <Admin 
        dataProvider={dataProvider} 
      >
        <Resource name="posts" list={PostList} show={PostShow} create={PostCreate} edit={PostEdit}/>
      </Admin>
...

Auth Provider

Using the FirebaseAuthProvider you can allow authentication in the application.

const dataProvider = FirebaseDataProvider(config);
const authProvider = FirebaseAuthProvider(config);
...
      <Admin 
        dataProvider={dataProvider}
        authProvider={authProvider}
      >
...

Note

To get the currently logged in user run const user = await authProvider('AUTH_GETCURRENT'), this will return the firebase user object, or null if there is no currently logged in user.

Realtime Updates!

Get realtime updates from the firebase server instantly on your tables, with minimal overheads, using rxjs observables!

...
import {
  FirebaseRealTimeSaga,
  FirebaseDataProvider
} from 'react-admin-firebase';
...
const dataProvider = FirebaseDataProvider(config);
const firebaseRealtime = FirebaseRealTimeSaga(dataProvider);
...
      <Admin 
        dataProvider={dataProvider} 
        customSagas={[firebaseRealtime]}
      >
...

Realtime Options

Trigger realtime on only some routes using the options object.

...
const dataProvider = FirebaseDataProvider(config);
const options = {
  watch: ['posts', 'comments'],
  dontwatch: ['users']
}
const firebaseRealtime = FirebaseRealTimeSaga(dataProvider, options);
...

Help Develop react-admin-firebase?

1. git clone https://github.com/benwinding/react-admin-firebase
2. yarn && yarn watch
3. (open another terminal)
4. cd src-demo && yarn && yarn start

Now all local changes in the library source code can be tested immediately in the demo app.