Editable Gatsby Starter

Clone the starter repo

• Set env vars in .env files
• update package.json with project title and description
• create Firebase config file at config/firebase-config.<ENVIRONMENT>.json

Set up Firebase services

Authentication

• Go to "Sign-in Providers" and enable Email and Google

Realtime database

• Enable Realtime database and seed the database by importing the file fixtures/database-seed.json
• Update rules as follows:

{
  "rules": {
    "pages": {
      ".read": true,
      ".write": "auth != null && root.child('users').child(auth.uid).child('isEditor').val() == true"
    },
    "users": {
      "$user_id": {
        ".write": "$user_id === auth.uid",
        ".read": "$user_id === auth.uid"
      }
    },
  }
}

Storage

• Enable storage with directories for files and images
• Get service account keys and add to config/firebase-config.<ENVIRONMENT>.json

Hosting

• Enable hosting

Populate firebase config files

• Under "Project Settings > General", create a new web app to get the firebase config and add to config/firebase-config.<ENVIRONMENT>.json
• Under "Project Settings > Service Accounts", click "Generate a new private key" and add it to config/firebase-config.<ENVIRONMENT>.json

Add project to less-cms for deployment

• create separate projects for staging and production