Single Page Applications (SPAs) have a significant advantage over traditional multi-page applications in that they load assets when a client initially accesses the app. This means that routing can be very fast; the user doesn’t have to load a new HTML file every time they navigate within the application. But this advantage also creates a unique problem: after deployment, users will only have the latest version of your…

Over the past year, we’ve been building some web apps in React that talk to our customers’ FileMaker servers and to Google’s Cloud Firestore database. As part of that, we’ve begun working with Google’s flavor of FaaS (Function as a Service), Firebase Cloud Functions. Cloud Functions, along with AWS Lamba and Microsoft’s Azure Functions, are part of a growing trend towards serverless architecture. The commonly cited advantages to…

We’ve found react-redux-firebase (RRF) to be a big time saver when querying Firestore. Despite the name, the library has robust support for not just Firebase, but Firestore too, pulling in redux-firestore behind the scenes for Firestore operations. The documentation for RRF’s use of redux-firestore’s APIs is scant within the RRF docs themselves, but redux-firestore’s documentation is extensive and can be applied to usage of RRF.   We make…