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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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Security

As per the security concern, every database has a different way of securing data from unauthorized users:

Source: https://firebase.google.com/docs/firestore/rtdb-vs-firestore?authuser=0.

Realtime Database Cloud Firestore
Cascading rules that require separate validation.
  • Firebase Database Rules are the only security option.
  • Read and write rules cascade.
  • You need to validate data separately using .validate in the rule.
Simpler, more powerful security for mobile, web, and server SDKs.
  • Mobile and web SDKs use Cloud Firestore Security Rules, and server SDKs use Identity and Access Management (IAM).
  • Rules don't cascade unless you use a wildcard.
  • Data validation happens automatically.
  • Rules can constrain queries; if a query's results ...
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