Firebase.News

It's a simple template project for the Firebase Labs it contains (hopefully) all the necessary samples, based on them you will be able to create your very own project.

Contains:

• A newly created .NET MVC ( API template is also included) project, this project will be the frontend of the application

• The template project which is having an example for all the CRUD (Create/Read/Update/Delete) operations this includes the methods for the controllers and also the views for them. You can find the dinosaur controller inside the controller folder and the associated views for them inside the Views/Dinosaur folder.

• Firebase.News.Tests the integrations tests for the public APIs of the third party libraries we're going to use during the labs. Namely : FirebaseDatabase.net, FirebaseStorage.net and FirebaseAuthentication.net More info in the Third party libraries section of this document

Third party libraries:

• FirebaseDatabase.net
• FirebaseStorage.net
• FirebaseAuthentication.net

Pre requirements (Firebase setup):

1. Create a firebase project with your google account through the Console
2. In the online platform, under development section you can create a new database NOTE: check no strict mode.
3. On the same panel you can start to have storage ready as well.
4. Navigate to the Rules tab of the Storage and remove the if statement from the JSON from the line which is starting with allow read, write

How to create a project similar to this:

Lab 1:

1. Create a new .NET Web application project and check MVC and Web API. More info on the following link.
2. Create a class library which will envelope your domain knowledge. Info
3. Create the model classes( POC for the project inside the class library project. Important to have an ID field for the objects as they are eventually entities.
4. Link the class library to the main MVC project (and also reference it to the Unit test project in case you have it) Info Add Reference -> Project and check the DLL project jo want to reference to the main project.
5. Generate the controllers and views for the CRUD operations similar examples can be found under the following links:
   info for the controllers and info for the views

Lab 2:

1. Install the third party libraries through NuGet, for both projects, if you willing to have unit tests install the libraries for that project as well. Info
2. Make sure that every project is having the same version of the NewtonSoft, for example Update all the pachages through the Nuget Package manager console. [Link]
3. Change the NewsItem Class to have the conversion from long to DateTime back and forth
4. Set up datepicker with JQuery UI. [link]
5. Add file input to the create view and also extend the controller with the files to have them as parameters (max 3).
6. Create a repository in the Domain project which will envelope the methods to get/post data to/from firebase.
7. Write the actual actions.

Lab 3:

1. Change the NesItem class to have an actual refference to the Creator
2. Create a static readonly Creator property in the Creator class itself
3. Extend the repository with query which gets the creator by name
4. Create a function which posts a new creator if it doesn't exist
5. Embed the mapping of creator -> creatorId in the news items
6. Introduce mappings from Firebase Objects to our domain objects with [extension methods]

Homework (optional):

1. Change the detail page of the NewsItem to show the Creator name instead of the creatorId
2. Write a listing for the news by changing the dummy mocked object to an actual repository function invoke
3. Create an update news function in the repository and test it through firebase console
4. Apply authentication to the system.
5. Publish to Azure [Azure publish tutorial]

Quick catch up with C# under [this] and [this] the first one is a cheat sheet ;-)