2015 Berlin Speedhack - Firebase Code Challenge

This repository hosts the scaffold webapp for the Firebase code challenge at the 2015 Berlin Speedhack as part of the APIDays conference.

Get your Toolbox and Workbench ready!

• Prepare your development environment with the following software:

• Git

• Node.js (+NPM installed)

• Editor of your choice

• Install Gulp and Firebase Tools sudo npm install -g gulp firebase-tools

• Fork the repository and after cloning git clone <repo-url> && cd <repo-name> run npm installto download all required node packages

• To start the development server run gulp. It'll start a server on localhost:8000.

• You need the following accounts:

• Free GitHub Account

• Free Firebase Account - Hacker Plan is sufficient for development

Base Camp - Where does everyone start from?

The application currently works single user only. It's built using Twitter Bootstrap and JQuery. You see 5 panel boxes:

• Question on the menu ;) - Shows current active question or placeholder if no question is active
• No question active? Fire your question! :) - Lets you submit a question that instantly becomes active. Hurry to vote :)
• How to participate - Gives instructions on how to participate. This content is currently inactive since only a single user is supported.
• #TBT - Nostalgia - Shows the history of previously submitted and voted questions
• Voters News Flash - is a placeholder for multi-user activity updates - inactive in the single-user scenario

The Challenge - Can you solve it?

Use Firebase APIs to finish the following steps:

1. Replace the local data structure question: {} and store questions and votes in Firebase. Enable real-time synchronization and updates between all clients.
2. Integrate an authentication provider of your choice (or all if you like and can spare the time) and show who came online, went inactive or offline in the Voters News Flash. Show the question submit panel only to authenticated users.
3. Configure security & permissions to secure your Firebase and only authenticated users can write data.

To get started checkout the Firebase Guide. For any question feel free to contact us on Twitter (@hostirosti and @tekgrrl).

Optional: Unlock bonus points by ensuring that data privacy and anonymity concerns are met. How do you solve that a voting can't be backtracked to its voter still enforcing that everyone can only vote once for each question.

Disclaimer: This is not an official Google product!