Firebase. Cloud Functions. Creation, deployment, and emulation

Cloud Functions for Firebase is a serverless framework that lets you automatically run backend code in response to events triggered by Firebase features and HTTPS requests. Your JavaScript or TypeScript code is stored in Google’s cloud and runs in a managed environment. There’s no need to manage and scale your own servers.

What will be covered in this article

• Set up Functions
• Local setup
• Deploying Functions
• Emulating Functions
• Other Firebase stories: Basics, Admin SDK

Set up Functions

Before we can deploy our first Cloud Function we will need to Set up Functions in our Firebase project…

Firebase will provide you steps for local installation, but this will be covered next, just click Continue …

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