itaicaspi / firebase-admin

An improved dashboard to manage Firebase Firestore databases

Firebase Admin

Introduction

The official Firebase console is a great tool to manage your account. But managing Firebase Firestore Database can get a bit challenging for more advanced use cases.

Firebase Admin solves some of these challenges but adding functionality and improving the user experience. Things you can do with Firebase Admin:

• Anything you can do using Firebase Console
• Easily remove a document, a group of documents or an entire collections
• Rename documents
• Clone documents
• Edit documents using a json like interface
• Quick view multiple parameters for all documents in a collection simultaneously, and filter or sort by them
• Search documents in a collection
• Click a link to a photo to quick preview it
• Save favorite paths
• Filter a document to show only a specific property
• Much faster loading of large documents
• View the size of each document
• View the number of document
• Easily navigate to different subcollections in the current hierarchy

Setup

Clone

First, clone the repository to your machine

git clone https://github.com/itaicaspi/firebase-admin.git

Install dependencies

Install all the node packages required to run the dashboard

cd firebase-admin
npm install

Add a firebase config

Configure your firebase account by adding a file named src/firebaseConfig.ts with the content of your firebase configuration

export const firebaseConfig = {
  apiKey: "...",
  authDomain: "...",
  databaseURL: "...",
  projectId: "...",
  storageBucket: "...",
  messagingSenderId: "...",
  appId: "...",
  measurementId: "..."
};

Deploy firebase functions

Firebase functions are used in order to take care of some logic that is not available in the client website. This includes removing documents, listing collections, etc.

firebase deploy --only functions

Run locally

Note: running locally still depends on first deploying the firebase functions using the previous command.

To run the website locally, use:

npm start

Open http://localhost:3005 to view the dashboard

Deploy firebase hosting

The firebase admin website is ready for deployment to firebase hosting. Just run the following commands to deploy

npm run build
firebase deploy --only hosting