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Vue.js & Firestore App - Build & Deploy [Part 1]

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In this 6 part series we will build an application using the Vue.js framework and the Firebase Firestore cloud platform as our data store. In this video we will setup firestore, setup our app with Vue-CLI and create the Firebase config files CODE: Final Project https://github.com/bradtraversy/vue_firestore_employeemanager 💖 BECOME A PATRON: Show support & get perks! http://www.patreon.com/traversymedia VISIT MY WEBISTE: Check Out My Udemy Courses http://www.traversymedia.com FOLLOW TRAVERSY MEDIA: http://www.facebook.com/traversymedia http://www.twitter.com/traversymedia http://www.instagram.com/traversymedia https://discord.gg/traversymedia

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watching my videos for a while and you really like what I do and I've helped you out a lot, consider becoming a patron.", 'start': 177.691, 'duration': 6.145}, {'end': 188.86, 'text': 'Even for $1 per month, it pushes me to keep bringing you guys the best content I possibly can.', 'start': 184.016, 'duration': 4.844}, {'end': 193.923, 'text': "There's reward tiers for discounts, free Udemy courses, personal support, and more.", 'start': 188.88, 'duration': 5.043}, {'end': 197.226, 'text': 'So check out the Patreon link in the description below for more info.', 'start': 194.003, 'duration': 3.223}, {'end': 202.887, 'text': "All right, so the very first thing we're going to do is create our Firestore database.", 'start': 198.746, 'duration': 4.141}], 'summary': 'Encourages viewers to become a patron for as little as $1 per month to access rewards and support content creation.', 'duration': 29.848, 'max_score': 173.039, 'thumbnail': 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'text': "so first thing we're going to do is we're going to install the Vue CLI, which is the command line interface, to create Vue applications,", 'start': 435.318, 'duration': 7.566}, {'end': 447.767, 'text': 'to compile them and build them out, to run the server and a whole bunch of other stuff.', 'start': 442.884, 'duration': 4.883}, {'end': 455.333, 'text': "So we need to install that globally and you're going to need Node.js installed, because Node.js comes with the Node Package Manager,", 'start': 448.208, 'duration': 7.125}, {'end': 457.034, 'text': "and that's what we use to install it.", 'start': 455.333, 'duration': 1.701}, {'end': 462.378, 'text': "So if you don't have Node installed, just go to nodejs.org and download and install it.", 'start': 457.114, 'duration': 5.264}, {'end': 468.686, 'text': "Then you're going to want to just do npm install-g for global and then view-cli.", 'start': 462.958, 'duration': 5.728}], 'summary': 'Initial database set up, ready to begin 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'duration': 4.402}, {'end': 519.697, 'text': 'I spelt that wrong.', 'start': 516.895, 'duration': 2.802}, {'end': 521.337, 'text': 'Oh, whatever.', 'start': 520.898, 'duration': 0.439}, {'end': 522.019, 'text': "It doesn't matter.", 'start': 521.357, 'duration': 0.662}, {'end': 525.58, 'text': "Author, so that's fine.", 'start': 523.779, 'duration': 1.801}, {'end': 526.06, 'text': "Let's see.", 'start': 525.66, 'duration': 0.4}, {'end': 528.241, 'text': 'So you want to choose runtime and compiler.', 'start': 526.1, 'duration': 2.141}, {'end': 533.322, 'text': "You can install without the compiler, but it's only 6K lighter, which is nothing.", 'start': 528.661, 'duration': 4.661}, {'end': 535.583, 'text': 'So you always want to choose the compiler.', 'start': 533.723, 'duration': 1.86}, {'end': 538.564, 'text': "And we want the router, so we're going to say yes.", 'start': 536.503, 'duration': 2.061}, {'end': 541.465, 'text': "ESLint, I'm going to say no to that.", 'start': 539.344, 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{'end': 960.922, 'text': "And that's all we need in this file.", 'start': 959.521, 'duration': 1.401}, {'end': 961.862, 'text': "So we'll save that.", 'start': 961.002, 'duration': 0.86}, {'end': 962.903, 'text': "That's our config.", 'start': 961.903, 'duration': 1}], 'summary': 'Export the config object from firestore for web app.', 'duration': 33.366, 'max_score': 929.537, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/sYNjEzcOTOs/pics/sYNjEzcOTOs929537.jpg'}, {'end': 1090.606, 'src': 'heatmap', 'start': 1061.052, 'weight': 0.918, 'content': [{'end': 1062.873, 'text': "It's just firestore, all lowercase.", 'start': 1061.052, 'duration': 1.821}, {'end': 1064.493, 'text': 'Just like that.', 'start': 1063.853, 'duration': 0.64}, {'end': 1066.013, 'text': "So that's our initializer.", 'start': 1064.593, 'duration': 1.42}, {'end': 1069.814, 'text': "So we'll save that, and that should be it as far as configuring Firebase.", 'start': 1066.053, 'duration': 3.761}, {'end': 1073.958, 'text': 'And just to make sure our app still works.', 'start': 1071.597, 'duration': 2.361}, {'end': 1079, 'text': "So in the next video, we're going to start to build out some of our components.", 'start': 1075.199, 'duration': 3.801}, {'end': 1080.921, 'text': "We're going to use the router.", 'start': 1079.781, 'duration': 1.14}, {'end': 1088.085, 'text': "We're basically going to have a couple different pages, one to add the employee, one to edit the employee.", 'start': 1081.241, 'duration': 6.844}, {'end': 1090.606, 'text': 'Of course, we need the home page where we list the employees.', 'start': 1088.125, 'duration': 2.481}], 'summary': 'Configuring firebase for firestore, adding employee and edit pages.', 'duration': 29.554, 'max_score': 1061.052, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/sYNjEzcOTOs/pics/sYNjEzcOTOs1061052.jpg'}], 'start': 425.392, 'title': 'Vue.js project setup', 'summary': 'Covers setting up vue 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