firebase

Firebase

This directory holds the Firebase Function detectRotations, which checks periodically against the What's in Standard? API for changes to Standard, then tweets the changes to Twitter from @whatsinstandard and toots them to Mastodon from @[email protected].

Development

To test locally, you need firebase-tools installed.

npm install -g firebase-tools

To actually test tweeting and tooting, you will need to set these secrets in Google Cloud Secret Manager:

MASTODON_ACCESS_TOKEN
TWITTER_BEARER_TOKEN

Now, visit the Firebase console and add the following structure to Firestore manually:

twitterbot      (collection)
  last-known    (document)
    sets        (collection)
      deleteme  (document)
mastodonbot     (collection)
  last-known    (document)
    sets        (collection)
      deleteme  (document)

Open a Firebase shell:

firebase use whats-in-standard-beta # Or your non-production project name
firebase functions:shell # Note that changes to .env require rerunning this

and invoke the function:

detectRotations()

Architecture

The cron architecture is embedded in the Firebase function; there is no separate architecture that pings it. Look for the functions.pubsub.schedule call.

Deploying

mv functions/.env ~/.env.firebase.tmp

# Make sure the following command prints "Now using project whats-in-standard"
firebase use whats-in-standard

firebase deploy
firebase use whats-in-standard-beta
mv ~/.env.firebase.tmp functions/.env

Then revert .firebaserc.