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• Connect to Firebase

  in JavaScript • 3 years, 7 months

  

  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); });
    });
  }
  

• Connect to Firebase

  in JavaScript • 3 years, 7 months

  

  thanks @MaBe, but I already wrote a simple node 5 liner that fits my needs ;)

• Connect to Firebase

  in JavaScript • 3 years, 7 months

  

  this thread is old, but just thought it's worth while stressing what @Gordon mentioned above:
  you can't perform a REST API call on a 'cheap' ESP8266 board, you'll need one of the boards that supports this.
  I actually like the idea of developing with the more expensive Wifi board, but I'd like to deliver them cheap boards of 2$ ESP8266 - and that (apparently) can't be used - unless you write and hosts an http to https proxy somewhere - not that hard really :) and you can still stay free with platforms like heroku

  ------- edit ----------
  btw - these boards DO support Firebase if you went along the C++ standard Arduino IDE, just far less fun coding on those