Github Actions

The Github actions in Firestarter will

• Run unit tests on every commit
• Deploy changes to Firebase rules on every commit to main

To get this to work, some configuration is required:

Obtain values from Firbease account

• Log into your Firbease account, and go to the console.
• Click your project.
• Under Get started by adding Firebase to your app, click the Web icon that looks like ``.
• Copy the Project ID into a temporary file (to use later)
• Click Service Accounts, then click Generate a new private key, then click Generate key
• Open the downloaded file, and check there is a JSON file in there.
• Careful: this file contains full access to your Firebase project! Don't share this. This will be deleted once the steps are done.

Add these to your actions environment

• Open your repo in Github
• Click Settings, and then click Environments
• Click Add Secret
  • For Name enter GCP_SA_KEY
  • For Secret enter the contents of the downloaded JSON file.
  • Click Add Secret
  • Delete the JSON file.
• Click Add Variable
  • For Name enter PROJECT_ID
  • For Value enter the project ID obtained earlier.
  • Click Add Variable
• Delete the temporary file.

Push an empty commit on your repsitory, you should, after a few minutes now get a green circle showing that everything is successful.

Congratulations >>>