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Firebase Cookbook

You're reading from   Firebase Cookbook Over 70 recipes to help you create real-time web and mobile applications with Firebase

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Product type Paperback
Published in Nov 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788296335
Length 288 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Houssem Yahiaoui Houssem Yahiaoui
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Table of Contents (15) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Firebase - Getting Started FREE CHAPTER 2. Firebase Real-Time Database 3. File Management with Firebase Storage 4. Firebase Authentication 5. Securing Application Flow with Firebase Rules 6. Progressive Applications Powered by Firebase 7. Firebase Admin SDK 8. Extend Firebase with Cloud Functions 9. We’re Done, Let’s Deploy 10. Integrating Firebase with NativeScript 11. Integrating Firebase with Android/iOS Natively 12. Hack Application's Growth 13. Adding Analytics and Maximizing Earnings 14. Firebase Cloud FireStore

Implementing file serving and downloading

In the previous recipe, we discussed how we could upload files to the Storage bucket. In this part of the chapter, we're going to see how we can deliver and download our files directly from the Storage bucket.

How to do it...

Typically, we don't have a way to showcase all the files we have within our bucket. We do have files and folders in Firebase; however there's no API to showcase folders, but only to showcase files.

Bear in mind that the notion of folders doesn't have a meaning within the platform. This means that there's nothing called a folder within the API or logic--it's just a basic path reference to our files.

Thus, we need to have our own custom...

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