Connect to Firebase

a bit more than 5 lines actually

const app = require('express')();

app.get('/', (req, res) => {
  console.log("fetching ...", req.query.url);
  if (req.query.url) fetch(req.query.url, (data) => {res.send(data); });
  else res.send("missing url");
});

const port = 9999;

app.listen(port, () => {
  console.log(`fetch a url with http://localhost:${port}?url=https://som­ewhere.com/this-that`);
});

function fetch(url, cb) {
  require("https").get(url, res => {
    res.setEncoding("utf8");
    let body = "";
    res.on("data", data => { body += data; });
    res.on("end", () => { cb(body); });
  });
}