Google API + Firebase - Boilerplate

Setup Configuration

copy the example-config.js and save it as config.js in the same location.

Firebase Config

From overview , click add Firebase to your web app and copy those value under firebase: {...}

Google API Config

from https://console.developers.google.com you need to enable a few APIs. Click Enable API, from the list add Google Calendar API and Google+ API. You can add anything you want, just make sure to add it to the discovery_docs array if you would like to access with in your app.

Under Credentials, click Create credentials -> API Key. add this to google in the config.js file. If there is not already a OAuth 2.0 client IDs create one from the Create credentials drop down. Click the pencil and copy over the Client ID to the config.js file.

You can add a hosted_domain making it so that only people from a given domain that use google can app your app. ie: biz.com.

You need to add the scope for any of the APIs that you added, in this example we are using google+ and the calendar. You can see more scopes here: https://developers.google.com/identity/protocols/googlescopes

We need to add the discovery_docs that we need people and calendar. To add more view here: https://developers.google.com/discovery/v1/getting_started

module.exports = {
	google: {
		client_id: '****.apps.googleusercontent.com',	
		api_key: '****',
		hosted_domain: '****.com',
		scope: 'profile email https://www.googleapis.com/auth/calendar https://www.googleapis.com/auth/plus.login',
		discovery_docs: [	      
			'https://www.googleapis.com/discovery/v1/apis/calendar/v3/rest', 
			'https://people.googleapis.com/$discovery/rest?version=v1'
		],
	},
	firebase: {
		apiKey: '****',
		authDomain: '****.firebaseapp.com',
		databaseURL: 'https://****.firebaseio.com',
		storageBucket: '****.appspot.com',
		messagingSenderId: '****'
	}
}

Build Setup

# install dependencies
npm install

# serve with hot reload at localhost:8080
npm run dev

# build for production with minification
npm run build

Deploy & Authorization

This app is ready to deploy to heroku just add from github (with a config.js file) or from the heroku toolbelt. We ignore the config.js so we need to force add this if we want to keep it out of our Github repo. There are many ways to do this, but here is one solution.

Create an app in the Heroku dashboard.

Add the remote heroku git:remote -a {your-app-name}

Authorize domain. In the Google console under the OAuth 2.0 Client IDs you need to add the heroku domain to Authorized JavaScript origins and Authorized redirect URIs, then click save. This may take a few minutes to take affect.