Firebase Cookbook

How to do it...

Let us now learn how to customize Firebase using URL redirect.

Sometimes, we just want to change some URLs for some reasons, and typically sometimes we want to perform URL redirecting in order to maximise our user experience and prevent broken routes. So let's see how we can achieve that:

1. Head to your firebase.json file and introduce a new section within it called redirects. Within the hosting configuration, add the following code lines to your project:

      "hosting": {            //[*] Adding the redirect section        "redirects": [ {          "source" : "/books/firebasecookbook",          "destination" : "/awesomebook",          "type" : 301        }]      }

Inside the redirects array, we're introducing the following: 

• We specify the source route, in this case, /books/firebasecookbook ...