In this tutorial, we’ll be using Firebase along with Create React App to build an application that will function similarly to Reddit. It will allow the user to submit a new post that can then be voted on. I’ll also demonstrate how to deploy our Reddit clone to Vercel.
React is a fantastic front-end library for building user interfaces. When picking a back end to use alongside it, you can’t go far wrong with Firebase, a Backend-as-a-Service (Baas) that makes it easy to add data persistence (and much more besides) to your React app.
In this tutorial, we’ll be using Firebase along with Create React Appto build an application that will function similarly to Reddit. It will allow the user to submit a new post that can then be voted on. I’ll also demonstrate how to deploy our Reddit clone to Vercel
Once you’ve finished reading, you’ll understand how to set up Firebase, how to connect it to your React app and how to deploy the result.
This was a good introduction to Firebase. There are a couple things that could be better (e.g., remembering to pass in the "--save" option when doing "npm install" so that the config file is updated, and I found a bug where isLoading should have been set to "false" to turn the "spinners" off on the vote buttons). Overall I felt I learned something, which is good!
