Summary
The more storage you have, the more stuff you accumulate. Firebase storage is a powerful service that Firebase offers. In this chapter, we explored storage features and most importantly created a reference, without which we would not be able to proceed. Also, we understood the file upload and download processes, and had a comprehensive view of file metadata and the process of deleting the files. Firebase is network-based and a remote cloud service we will encounter, so we looked at many issues resulting in common errors that we have learned how to handle. Security rules are the most important topic of the chapter, and introduce important keywords such as allow, match, and if. We also explored the general syntax for rules. Finally, we completed the chapter by understanding cloud functions for storage with an easy thumbnail generation code snippet. In the next chapter, we will explore another powerful tool, Firebase hosting, and we will learn more web-related activities such as...