Day 20: Mailgun and Firebase Security

Monday, June 27, 2016

Topics

Github Pull Requests

• A request to merge modified code into an existing repository
• GitHub Help: Using pull requests
• GitHub Help: Commenting on differences between files

Mailgun

• mailgun-js - Simple Node.js helper module for Mailgun API
• Quickstart Guide

Node mailgun setup

var mailgun = require('mailgun-js');
var mailgunClient = mailgun({ apiKey: MY_API_KEY, domain: MY_DOMAIN });

var emailData = {
  from: 'Example User <user@example.com>',
  to: 'recipient@example.com',
  subject: 'Example Email',
  text: 'This is an email for example purposes'  
};

mailgunClient.messages().send(emailData, function(error, body) {
  console.log(body);
});

Firebase Security

• Rules are defined in JSON
• Can define rules in three flavors:
  • .read - describes if and when data can be read
  • .write - describes if and when data can be written
  • .validate - defines correctly formatted values for the data
• Security rules cascade - child rules can only grant additional privileges, not revoke a read or write privilege.
• Firebase console has a simulator for testing the security rules that are written
• Security Quickstart Guide

Homework

Continue refactor of meganote based on peer feedback on your pull request

Projects

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