@simondotm/nx-firebase

A plugin for Nx >= 12.1.1 that provides support for Firebase projects in an Nx monorepo workspace.

This project has been renamed from @simondotm/nxfirebase to @simondotm/nx-firebase

See CHANGELOG for more details.

Overview

Nx provides a great way to manage monorepo workflows, however if you have a development setup where your Nx workspace uses one or more Firebase projects that use different combinations and configurations of Firebase features such as hosting, storage, database rules/indexes, and functions, then some extra tooling is necessary in order to maintain a familiar Firebase workflow within your monorepo.

This plugin aims to help with this by:

1. Enabling & promoting use of shared Typescript code libraries within Firebase functions
2. Retaining a familiar usage of all Firebase features in a way that feels integrated with Nx workflow
3. Requiring minimal friction/setup for configuration of an Nx workspace in order to be productive with development, building & deployment of Firebase projects

Quick Start

Installation

npm install @simondotm/nx-firebase

Installs this plugin into your Nx workspace.

nx g @simondotm/nx-firebase:init

Installs firebase dependencies (both for backend and frontend) to your root workspace package.json (or you can just npm install firebase dependencies manually)

Create Firebase Application

nx g @simondotm/nx-firebase:app <appname> [--directory dir]

Generates a new Nx Firebase application in the workspace - /apps/[dir]/appname

The app generator will also create a Firebase configuration file called firebase.appname.json in the root of your workspace (along with a default .firebaserc and firebase.json if they don't already exist)

Build Project

nx build appname [--with-deps]

Compiles & builds the target Nx Firebase (functions) application to dist/apps/[dir]/appname. It will also auto-generate a package.json that is compatible with the Firebase CLI for functions deployment.

Deploy Project (Firebase functions)

For inital deployment:

firebase login if not already authenticated

firebase use --add to add your Firebase Project(s) to the .firebaserc file in your workspace. This step must be completed before you can deploy anything to Firebase.

Then:

firebase deploy --only functions --config firebase.appname.json

Or

nx deploy appname --only functions

Serve Project

nx serve appname - will run tsc in watch mode on the app function code and start the Firebase emulators

See the full plugin README for more details.

Nx-Firebase Features

Supports:

• Typescript Firebase functions
• Single or multiple Firebase projects in one Nx workspace
• Firebase applications in app subdirectories
• Use of Nx buildable node libraries in Firebase functions
• Nx dependency checking for builds
• Building functions with tsc --watch mode
• Firebase Emulators
• Convenience Nx getconfig target to fetch remote firebase functions configuration variables to local .runtimeconfig.json file
• Convenience Nx deploy, emulate, and serve targets for functions

Additionally:

• Auto generates Firebase functions package.json ready for no fuss deployment using the Firebase CLI
• Auto generates default firebase.json configurations, rules and indexes for each Firebase app
• Only very lightly opinionated about your Firebase configurations and workspace layouts; you can just use the Firebase CLI as usual
• Keeps all of your firebase rules and indexes within your app folder, to keep your workspace root free of clutter