React / Spotify Authorization Code Flow / Firebase Boilerplate

A minimal way to get started and build a simple full-stack web app using create-react-app and Firebase.

Boilerplate project setup using:

• Frontend: React w/ create-react-app, FCs and Hooks, Typescript
• Backend: Firebase w/ Node.js Cloud Functions, Typescript
• Auth: Includes implementation of Spotify Authorization API

Get Started

• Clone this repo

Installation

• Run npm install to install the packages declared in package.json

Firebase

• Learn how to set up a firebase project here: Add Firebase to your Javascript project
  • Note that Step 3 is partially taken care of with the 'Using module bundlers' approach. See ./src/components/Firebase.
  • To initialize Firebase, Create a .env file and put your firebase config details there, as labelled in src/components/Firebase/firebase.ts (example being REACT_APP_API_KEY={your API key here}). .env is excluded in .gitignore
  • After changing environment variables, you need to restart your development server
• After installing the firebase CLI, make sure to run firebase init to create a .firebaserc file, which points your Firebase CLI (deploying functions, firestore/storage rules, etc.) to the right project. Note this might rewrite the ./functions folder though. Learn more here: Firebase CLI reference

Spotify

• Retrieve your app's Spotify client ID and secret from the Spotify Developer Dashboard. Use the firebase CLI to upload these to your config as expected in functions/src/Auth/config.ts
• Modify the other values in functions/src/Auth/config.ts as appropriate
• Miror those values in src/constants/auth.tsx. Spotify expects these values to be identical between API calls when exchanging the code for the access and refresh tokens.

Run

• Run npm run start

Other Details

Frontend:

• Firebase client SDK is implemented via a wrapper/gateway class in ./src/components/Firebase.
• Convenient React Contexts and hooks set up to provide the Firebase client instance and current user Auth session throughout the React app (useFirebase() and useSession())
• Uses react-router for routing
• Uses react-boostrap

Other Resources

• Typescript in 5m
• Intro to React Hooks

Questions?

• Have questions? Please open an issue and I'll get back to you by EOD. These are highly welcome--then the readme can be updated to provide this information and be more clear.
• PRs are welcome!
• Good luck on building!

Thanks

Thanks to @ly-chen for guidance on setting up the Spotify auth flow.