React Firebase Essentials
A fully-featured single-page app template, hosted and running in minutes. Based on Create-React-App and Firebase. Written with React-Hooks.
Overview
The React Firebase Essentials is a fully-featured single-page app template based on Create-React-App and Firebase. It aims to provide all the basic features needed for most online products or services, allowing users to quickly build the important parts of their Minimum Viable Product (MVP) without getting caught up in repetitive tasks. The template includes modern authentication UI flows, mobile-ready responsive design, Styled-Components, React Hooks and the Context API. It requires minimal dependencies and comes with pre-written security rules for the Firestore DB, push notification setup, and even an option for Dark Mode.
Features
- Modern authentication UI flows: The template includes pre-built authentication UI flows for email, Facebook and Google authentication methods. Simply plug in your Firebase API keys and you're good to go.
- Mobile-ready responsive design: The template is designed to be responsive and mobile-friendly, ensuring a seamless user experience across different devices.
- Styled-Components: The template utilizes Styled-Components, allowing for easy customization with global variables to match your preferred design.
- Built with React Hooks and Context API: The template is built entirely using React Hooks and the new Context API, providing a more efficient and modern way of managing component state.
- Minimal dependencies: The template requires very few dependencies, with the least popular module it uses having 6.4k stars on Github.
- Basic security rules: Basic security rules for the Firestore DB are already included in the template, providing a starting point for securing your data.
- Push Notifications: The template comes with push notification setup out of the box, including a supplied cloud function for triggering messages.
- Dark Mode: The template includes a Dark Mode option, catering to users who prefer a darker color scheme.
- Create React App
Create React App is a popular tool for quickly setting up a new React project without the need for manual configuration or setup. It provides a preconfigured development environment with modern build tools, a live development server, and an easy-to-use command line interface.
- React
React is a widely used JavaScript library for building user interfaces and single-page applications. It follows a component-based architecture and uses a virtual DOM to efficiently update and render UI components
- Styled Components
Styled Components is a popular library for styling React components using CSS syntax. It allows you to write CSS in your JavaScript code, making it easier to create dynamic styles that are specific to each component.
- Firebase
Firebase offers a comprehensive set of features, including real-time database, authentication, hosting, cloud functions, storage, and more. Firebase provides an easy-to-use interface and allows developers to focus on building features rather than managing infrastructure.
- Templates & Themes
A template or theme refers to a pre-designed layout or structure that provides a basic framework for building a specific type of application or website. It typically includes good design, placeholder content and functional features, allowing developers to customize and fill in the details according to their specific needs.