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Serverless Web Applications with React and Firebase
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Serverless Web Applications with React and Firebase

by Mayur Tanna, Harmeet Singh
April 2018
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
284 pages
6h 43m
English
Packt Publishing
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Data validation

As seen in the introduction section, we need to validate our data before saving it in the database to maintain data integrity and correctness. Firebase rules provide .validate expressions such as .read and .write to implement validation logic such as length of the field should be only this many characters or it must be of string data type.

Consider this example:

{  "rules": {        "users": {              "email": {                    ".validate": "newData.isString() && newData.val().length < 50"              }        }  }}

The preceding validation rule for email field determines that the value of email field must be String and its length should be less than 30 characters.

It is important to note that validation rules do not cascade, so in order for the write to be allowed, all relevant ...

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