How to setup and deploy

1 - Create a new scaffolding project and generate it

2 - Download the generated code

3 - Configure Firebase

3.1 - Create a Firebase project at the Firebase Console.

3.2 - Enable Firestore Database

• Go to Database
• Click at 'Try Firestore Beta'
• A popup will appear
• Click at 'Enable'

3.3 - Enable Storage

• Go to Storage
• Click at 'Enable'

3.3 - Enable Email/Password sign-in:

• At the Firebase console, open the Auth section.
• On the Sign in method tab, enable the Email/password sign-in method and click Save.

3.4 - Add the Firebase project id to the '<project-folder>/.firebaserc'.

3.5 - Configure the client side account's credentials:

• Go to the Firebase Project.
• Open 'Add Firebase to your web app'.
• Copy only the content of the var 'config'.
• Paste the content at the variable 'firebaseConfig' of both files '<project-folder>/frontend/environments/environment.ts' and '<project-folder>/frontend/environments/environment.prod.ts'.

3.6 - Configure the server side account credentials:

• Go to the Firebase Project.
• Click at the configuration icon, placed near 'Overview' at the left corner.
• Click at 'Project settings'.
• Open the tab 'Service accounts'.
• Open 'Firebase Admin SDK'.
• Click at 'GENERATE NEW PRIVATE KEY'.
• Save the file as <project-folder>/backend/service-account.json

3.7 - Configure email sender (Optional): In order to be able to send user invitation emails you need the SMTP credentials configured. It's optional, if you don't have it configured the app just won't send the emails.

• Open '<project-folder>/backend/package.json'.
• Locate the 'setup-config' and 'setup-config:production' scripts.
• Add the Client URL
• Add the SMTP credentials. See https://nodemailer.com for config options.
• Run the script: 'npm run setup-config' and 'npm run setup-config:production'.

4 - Setup project dependencies

4.1 - Download and install NodeJS

Go to https://nodejs.org/en/blog/release/v8.11.4/, download and install 8.11.4v of NodeJS.

4.2 - Open the console at the project folder

4.3 - Update de NPM

npm install -g npm

4.3 - Install firebase-tools globally

npm install -g firebase-tools

4.4 - Login at firebase-cli and add the project

firebase login

4.5 - Open the 'frontend' folder and run:

npm run deploy

4.6 - Open the 'backend' folder and run:

npm run deploy

5 - Open the application at the URL informed after first deploy