backend-assistant

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Backend Assistant is an NPM module for Firebase developers that instantly powerful assistive functions for Firebase backends.

Install

Install with npm:

npm install backend-assistant

Features

• Automatically parse incoming requests to get relevant information like IP, country, etc
• Automatically console log relevant information like the function name and more.

Example Setup

After installing via npm, simply paste this script in your functions/index.js file.

// In your functions/index.js file
const admin = require('firebase-admin');
const functions = require('firebase-functions');
const Assistant = require('backend-assistant');
let assistant = new Assistant().init({
    admin: admin,
    functions: functions,
    // req: req, // optional
    // res: res, // optional
  },
  {
    accept: 'json',
  })

Usage

Now you can harness powerful features

// assistant.log: correctly logs objects in Firebase functions
assistant.log({
  parent: {
    child: 'value'
  }
}, {environment: 'production'})

Final Words

If you are still having difficulty, we would love for you to post a question to the Backend Assistant issues page. It is much easier to answer questions that include your code and relevant files! So if you can provide them, we'd be extremely grateful (and more likely to help you find the answer!)

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