Firebase Remote Config — How to manage Remote Config + CI CD for a corporate standard production project.

Saurabh Shah

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Jan 16, 2021

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Last updated on: Jan 17, 2021.

Topics Covered:

✦ Comparison between API vs Firebase CLI approach to manage RemoteConfig.

✦ Firebase CLI to manage Remote Config when when you don’t have access to Remote Config.

✦ GitLab CI/CD pipeline (.gitlab-ci.yml) for managing Remote Config.

✦ Sample code examples for remoteconfig.template.json file.

Firebase remote config is a very powerful feature that can bring magic to your applications may it be web or mobile.

• Remote config helps you set application configurations via firebase cloud console.
• There configurations can be updated/set on demand. It does not require any deployment process.
• Consider it like authoring content on CMS; change the required configuration and publish.
• Version history of the remote config is very detailed and tracing the changes are easy.
• Rollback to any previous version is very easy.

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