commerce app but I need to create a chat just between every user and admin like for problems and etc so anyone has an idea on how it can be done
I've been using AWS services for something similar. The quickest way around it is to use AWS Amplify (think of it as AWS's Firebase).
Here's an article describing how you can build a chat application with Amplify: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/mobile/building-a-serverless-real-time-chat-application-with-aws-appsync/. Note that this article is from 2018, and it mentions AWS Mobile - which was replaced by AWS Amplify.
The example is for React, but you can easily build your Flutter front end for it. I'd recommend for now using this package, since it supports all the platforms(Android, iOS, Web): https://pub.dev/packages/amazon_cognito_identity_dart_2
If you need only Android and iOS at the moment (and you can wait for the web support), you can also try the official AWS Amplify Flutter: https://pub.dev/packages/amplify_flutter
In any case - you will need some sort of web socket based solution. GraphQL is I think the right way to go (AWS Amplify uses service called AWS Appsync - which is just their implementation of GraphQL).
I think this is a really general question, but I will share my little knowledge about the matter.
Well apart of implementing your own solution, with your own backend and/or websockets, you can also use Firebase to achieve it.
There are some services like getStream that provide some good packages, and all the main functionalities required from a chat, and also UI widgets for it. Of course, is not free.
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currently, I am using firebase for the backend but is there any path I have to learn to do backend without using firebase since it's limited free
Yes you can create backend with nodejs and connect nodejs with your flutter app. There are plenty of resources for learning how to connect nodejs backend with flutter app
Yes. You can use Python, node js, PHP-laravel.. It depends on the projects. According to the project, you can choose the backend.
"backend in flutter" ? , Flutter is framework in which we use dart programming language so the question is wrong. But perhaps you want to ask something else, which I was also exploring during my initial years.
For realtime database you can use mongo with polling (with or without even any server since you can even poll and crud in database with flutter itself).
For firebase cloud functions you either make your own APIs (with any backend say nodejs , Django , php..) and call them with Cron jobs or use mongo trigger.
For app performance monitoring , you first need to take data from your app itself and then store it in database and then need to make a web panel for showing that data in interactive manner.
Firebase hosting can't be your case so skipping it.
I hope that clears your doubt.
try supabase or rethinkdb + rust
I'm developing an Ionic(3 / 4)(Angular 4 - 7)-Cordova / Capacitor Cross Platform Application(s). I'm interested in switching API env based on the current rollout track in the Google Play Store. For example, once an application has been successfully tested and recommended to continue staging/production. I would like to have the API env dynamically changed (e.g., using a different URI domain to connect to REST API ) dependent on the Google Play Store Track.
I'm aware that I can use Google Developer Play Store API to identify / list versions and available tracks yet, I'm unaware if there's already an implementation or solution. I'm perfectly willing to design a solution though, I figure I find out if it's been done already rather than reinvent the wheel.
I'm hoping to implement a solution either to the REST API BACKEND or in the ionic framework layer rather than an integration at the native layer for scalability per-project. The purpose of doing this would enable CI rather than rebuilding the project and change the API URI domain for every environment. Any assistance in this matter would be greatly appreciated.
So, if anyone's interested. The approach highlighted above is possible, couldn't get an answer so I just created something. Using Google Play Developer API. The process flow is as follows:
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For now it's a working prototype perhaps its not very efficient; I suppose it can be improved if the request was issued from a single server, or microservice. Though, I wanted to make the code recyclable and it's isolated from both the mobile application & Node Server.
If you are interested in learning more or would like to work on project. Please feel free to contact me.
I learned how to code in swift a little while back and created my first app. Now I'm trying to market it to customers, I realized that a web-interface might be what I need to scale this up to start attracting clients.
I use firebase as my backend now and would like to see what I can do to have a web interface that:
Allows customers to log in to see their unique data.
Updates info on my firebase backend
is Scaleable.
I'm not sure where to start nor how long this process will take. Any one has any ideas on where to get started?
I'm pretty sure Wordpress has a firebase plugin that could come in handy. Using Wordpress would save a lot of time actually designing a website, getting servers, and backend stuff like that. If you pay a little bit you can get rid of the .wordpress. com tag too, and your website can easily look professional.
Firebase is a realtime database and it is mostly used with mobile apps and some of the JavaScript applications like Angular and ReactJS. I think the best is to use ReactJS and there you can do a lot of the same functionalities you did on your app.
You can find a lot of tutorials online about how to do reactjs and firebase apps.
Have a look at this post and it should give you an idea about how it is done. It is gonna be a new thing if you are not familiar with javascript NodeJS / ReactJS development. (Firebase, react and redux wait for store to update)
I am interested in learning to use the Smartsheets API. In the past I created workflows in Google Apps Script, which has a built in IDE that houses the script. Does Smartsheets have something similar? If not, where is a common place to keep your code and have it react to webhooks/events?
Regards,
Shawn
The API is just a way to communicate between your application and Smartsheet - there is no hosting for your executable code. Smartsheet provides a number of SDKs to help make the calls easier to perform, but in theory you could use any language to make the REST commands. So, pretty much any service that allows executable code would work, such as Amazon AWS, Google Cloud, Microsoft Azure, or others. Here's a brief comparison of services.
You can start developing on your own computer before you worry about cloud deployment. See the getting started guide and samples here: https://github.com/smartsheet-platform/getting-started
If you really need to respond to webhooks, your code will have to run somewhere that accepts incoming HTTP calls from the Internet without being blocked by a firewall. This could be in your data center, any of cloud services, or via a tunnel such as https://ngrok.com/
I have an Ionic app which is configured in parse.com backend. How can I change it to work with Firebase backend or is there any alternative for parse.com backend? I tried back4app.com but it can't read my cloud code.
Firebase is totally different from Parse.com so if you want to move to firebase you will need to refactor all your client business logic which interact with Parse.com services. A very good alternative is to use parse-server which is the Parse.com open source. parse-server can be deployed to any cloud which support NodeJS runtime.
Please note if you decided to go with parse-server or with back4app you need to do some modifications to your cloud code and your client side code. The best is to follow the documentation which available under the parse-server github page that i mentioned above. Another good resource is this one which collect all the stuff related to parse-server and how to use parse-server in development or production