Firebase step by step for dummies

step 0: register at https://console.firebase.google.com/ to create free tier account

step 0: create a project in firebase called uppercase-func; I am going to deploy a function in this tutorial

step 0: on Linux box, install git and npm

step 1:

sudo npm install -g firebase-toolsgit clone
https://github.com/firebase/functions-samples
cd quickstarts/; cd uppercase; cd functions; 
npm install
firebase login
firebase deploy —project uppercase-func

Gotchas:

what if you are working from a headless terminal?

firebase login --no-localhost

Test:

From browser, go to

https://us-central1-uppercase-func.cloudfunctions.net/addMessage?text=low

we get: