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firebase-cms

eCommerce TypeScript

FirebaseCMS

FirebasCMS is an e-commerce and blogging platform with a storefront and CMS built with Angular 4 (Angular CLI), Firebase (AngularFire2), Angular Material and Stripe. Create, moderate and manage pages, blog posts, products, orders, customers, carts, navigation, themes, admins and more with this web application.

Demo

Installation

Install Angular CLI

npm install -g @angular/cli

Install NPM packages

Run `npm install` or `yarn install`
cd functions/
Run `npm install`

Firebase setup

Create a Firebase account, create a new project, and copy the config code for your project.
Enable Google, Email/Password and Anonymous in the ‘Sign-In Method’ tab of the Authentication section in your Firebase project Console.
Within the project folder, run:

cd src
mkdir environments
cd environments
touch environment.ts
touch environment.prod.ts

Open ‘environment.ts’ and add your Firebase config as follows:

export const environment = {
  production: false,
  firebase: {
    apiKey: "xxxx",
    authDomain: "xxxxx",
    databaseURL: "xxxxx",
    projectId: "xxxxx",
    storageBucket: "xxxx",
    messagingSenderId: "xxxx"
  }
};

Open ‘environment.prod.ts’ and add your Firebase config as follows:

export const environment = {
  production: true,
  firebase: {
    apiKey: "xxxx",
    authDomain: "xxxxx",
    databaseURL: "xxxxx",
    projectId: "xxxxx",
    storageBucket: "xxxx",
    messagingSenderId: "xxxx"
  }
};

Stripe setup

Create a Stripe account.
Add your Stripe API Secret Key to firebase config:

firebase functions:config:set stripe.token=<YOUR STRIPE SECRET KEY>

Open ‘environment.ts’ and add your Stripe Publishable API Key as follows:

export const environment = {
  production: false,
  firebase: {
    apiKey: "xxxx",
    authDomain: "xxxxx",
    databaseURL: "xxxxx",
    projectId: "xxxxx",
    storageBucket: "xxxx",
    messagingSenderId: "xxxx"
  },
  stripe: "<YOUR STRIPE PUBLISHABLE KEY>"
};

Open ‘environment.prod.ts’ and add your Stripe Publishable API Key as follows:

export const environment = {
  production: true,
  firebase: {
    apiKey: "xxxx",
    authDomain: "xxxxx",
    databaseURL: "xxxxx",
    projectId: "xxxxx",
    storageBucket: "xxxx",
    messagingSenderId: "xxxx"
  },
  stripe: "<YOUR STRIPE PUBLISHABLE KEY>"
};

Create SuperAdmin Account

You’ll need to manually add your first admin account. To generate a hashcode for it…

  1. Run npm run hashcode and enter your email. Copy hashcode
  2. Create new entry in your firebaseDB under, /admins/<YOUR HASHCODE>/ as follows:
admins: {
  <YOUR HASH CODE>: {
    {
      email: '<YOUR EMAIL>',
      role: 'super-admin'
    }
  }
}
  1. Create user in firebase user management with same email.

Email Confirmation setup

  1. To allow the app to send confirmation emails through a Gmail account: enable access to Less Secure Apps and Display Unlock Captcha. For accounts with 2-step verification enabled, Generate an App Password.
  2. Set the gmail.email and gmail.password Google Cloud environment variables to match the email and password of the Gmail account used to send emails (or the app password if your account has 2-step verification enabled). For this use:
firebase functions:config:set gmail.email="<EMAIL ADDRESS>" gmail.password="<PASSWORD>"

Development server

Run ng serve for a dev server. The app will automatically reload if you change any of the source files.
Navigate to http://localhost:4200/ to access the front end.
Navigate to http://localhost:4200/login to access the login page (login is via Google).
Navigate to http://localhost:4200/admin to access the CMS (user must be logged in and must be part of ‘/admins’ in the Firebase database to access the CMS).

Code scaffolding

Run ng generate component component-name to generate a new component. You can also use ng generate directive|pipe|service|class|module.

Build

Run ng build to build the project. The build artifacts will be stored in the dist/ directory. Use the -prod flag for a production build.

Deploy

Run npm run deploy to deploy your project. This command will first build the app for production and then deploy it to Firebase hosting.

Admin Roles

There are 3 Admin Roles:

  • super-admin
  • admin
  • editor

Permission
super-admin
admin
editor

create new entities


edit entities


submit entities for approval


save entities


×

delete entities


×

publish/unpublish entities


×

edit items awaiting approval


×

approve/disapprove changes


×

view/add/edit/delete orders


×

view/add/edit/delete customers


×

view/add/edit/delete menus


×

view/add/edit/delete theme settings


×

view/add/edit/delete admins

×
×