A Web Developer’s Blog
Website developers (like myself) often end up with a few websites we support - whether these are promoting a business, running a blog, for a side project, or a site for a friend or hobby.
Since these are often low to no budget and can’t be prioritised for work at busy times they need to be
I’ve been working with SQL databases for over 20 years but this year was my first time using a NoSQL database.
Previous conversations with developers often went along the lines of them trying to tell me NoSQL is “better” and me not quite seeing a benefit. At the time I never really had a reason to try something different - what I had worked and was low risk.
Recently I had cause to adopt Google’s Firebase hosting and Cloud Firestore database and this is what I learned.
How did I balance all the other requirements of a website with the need to minimise energy use?
To make this site cleaner than 98% of web pages tested
Read more ...I’ve been using Google’s Firebase recently and find it a great development platform.
One of the best things about it is the emulators available for local development.
Just a few weeks ago they made it even better by adding an authentication emulator
So now you can easily start up a clean environment to test your new code on.
But the auth emulator starts with no users every time.
This is one way to add users.
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