Firebase Cookbook

How it works...

Let's explain how it works: 

1. We created a minimal web page with an upload input, that had an event listener for the change event.

2. When we clicked on the Upload to Firebase button, which is a nice-looking input button, we selected a file then grabbed it using the file APIs (built into the browser itself).

3. We created and grabbed ourselves a reference to the root directory and for the file, we wanted to upload.

4. We used a special Firebase method called put(), which returns a promise. That promise was resolved when we successfully uploaded the file.

5. We maintained the authorization rules for our file upload, keeping in mind that this was implemented for development. In a production-ready environment, maintaining the right ...