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Google Cloud

Authors:
Geoffrey Hunter
Geoffrey Hunter
Published On:
Oct 22, 2024
Last Updated:
Oct 24, 2024

Google Cloud (a.k.a. Google Cloud Platform, or GCP) is a cloud computing service provided by Google.

The Google Cloud logo.

Firebase

Firebase is a Google Cloud service that provides a set of cloud-based features to make it easier to develop and deploy web applications. It bundles together hosting, database, authentication, file storage and other common cloud services into a single product.

The Firebase logo2.

Firestore

Firestore is the NoSQL database provided by Firebase. It is a scalable database that offers offline support for mobile and web applications by caching reads/writes locally3. Data is stored in documents which are in turn grouped into collections. Firebase provides a web-based console for viewing and managing data in the Firestore.

Firebase CLI

Firebase provides a command line interface (CLI) that can be used to deploy and manage your Firebase projects. It can be installed via npm with the command4:

Terminal window
npm install -g firebase-tools

This will make the firebase command globally available from your terminal.

To deploy the entire Firebase project, run the following command:

Terminal window
firebase deploy

To deploy only the functions, run the following command:

Terminal window
firebase deploy --only functions

You can (slightly) speed up deployments even more by only deploying a specific function, e.g.:

Terminal window
firebase deploy --only functions:functionName

Logs

Logs can be viewed in the Google Cloud console, or using the following Firebase CLI command:

Terminal window
firebase functions:log

Footnotes

  1. Google. Firebase > Brand Guidelines. Retrieved 2024-10-24, from https://firebase.google.com/brand-guidelines. ↩

  2. Google. Firebase > Documentation > Firestore > Build > Cloud Firestore. Retrieved 2024-10-24, from https://firebase.google.com/docs/firestore. ↩

  3. Google. Firebase > Documentation > Reference > Firebase CLI Reference [documentation]. Retrieved 2024-10-23, from https://firebase.google.com/docs/cli. ↩