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Serverless Web Applications with React and Firebase

You're reading from   Serverless Web Applications with React and Firebase Develop real-time applications for web and mobile platforms

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Product type Paperback
Published in Apr 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788477413
Length 284 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Harmeet Singh Harmeet Singh
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Mayur Tanna Mayur Tanna
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Google App Engine


Google App Engine is a "Platform as a Service" that abstracts away the infrastructure worries and lets you focus only on code. It provides an automatically scalable platform that scales based on the amount of traffic it receives. You just need to upload your code, and it will automatically manage the availability of your app. Google App Engine is an easy and fast way to add additional processing power or trusted execution to your Firebase application.

If you have an App Engine application, you can use the built-in App Engine APIs to share data between Firebase and App Engine, since the Firebase SDKs for Cloud Storage use the Google App Engine default bucket. This is useful for performing computation intensive background processing or image operations, such as creating a thumbnail of uploaded image.

The Google App Engine standard environment provides an environment where your application runs in a sandbox, using the runtime environment of a supported language viz, Python 2...

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